Just saw Robert Frank’s The Americans exhibit at The Met. Do yourself a favor and just go see it. image

Even the trailer was a masterpiece. Very effective use of music.

And the view of SF from the top the hill.

Checked out a new part of the city that I never really explored before. Bernal Heights.

ninakix:

Maya Lin’s original competition submission for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Architectural drawings and a one page written summary. It was chosen from 1,421 entries submitted. (via 37signals)

Maya’s always been a minimalist, but what’s so striking about this is how minimal it really is - here, you only see the bare minimum of what you absolutely have to see to understand the concept, and nothing more. I find this laudable. As a side note, the choice of colors is fantastic.

Maya Lin was still an undergrad architecture student at Yale when she won this competition. She was 21! An amazing accomplishment to say the least.

quartey:

“The world is too small and the issues too large for architectural firms not to become aware of and involved in them. Teaming with the planning disciplines to succeed in this century will be necessary to solve major issues. Transportation, urban design, environmental planning, economic and community planning disciplines are all key in the next generation of architectural work.”

- Phil Enquist

If you are in the Syracuse University area on October 27th, check out my former boss, Audrey Matlock, lecturing on “Maximum/Minimum” at the school of architecture. The image is the Medeu tennis center in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

About a month or so ago I bought the first edition of Ryan McGinley’s Moonmilk book before it sold out (only 1000 copies were made). It is definitely a wonderful collection of magical imagery. If you appreciate his photography I would highly recommend purchasing the second edition when it becomes available at Morel Books.

Just found out some great news. Some of my academic work that I completed back in 2004 while I was attending Columbia University’s  School of Architecture has been published in a new book, New model Cities 01: South East Queensland Emerging Futures in Land Water Infrastructure. “This book is an archive of the resulting site research, design proposals, and relevant case studies, which is designed to serve as a comparative study of different teaching methods for post-professional studies in architecture and design. The publication includes selected projects from both universities and articles by prominent thinkers and design practitioners on large-scale environmental design-related issues and pedagogies in our educational systems.”