Jesse's Post

Resource: (American Digital Archive- Lots here!)

and a particular piece i love

This piece designed by Ramon Esteve- (i have a book with more on this Villa)- strikes me as I am obsessed with the horizon line and how color moves and changes along the horizon. The infinity pool that abuts the view of the water and then the water adjacent to the sky puts me in a reverie that is just indescribable!

House Project : Resource Share

By February 5th you must have your "influence" established.

By Monday- February 2nd you must post "links", images, etc- that appeal to you. We hope to tap into a range of architects and architectural styles in this 'intro' time- to pique some affinity that can be built upon for your models.

Please post an overall resource - like my first post as well as 3-5 images with a sentence or two why you like a particular building style or element.

Thank you

Chapter 6,7 and 8

Chapters 6,7 and 8 Due January 23rd

This should be fun for you. These three relatively short chapters- just read and then generate questions. Post bulleted lists of questions that were revealed to you as you read. Include the specific text/passage (include chapter # and page) that influenced your thinking. Essentially I am asking you to make your questions that come up clear to the reader, and your thinking behind those questions visible.  No minimums or maximums, but a close read will certainly elicit some questions in each chapter.

Chapter 5 - Verbicide

Posting Due by January 15th

1. This chapter interests me a great deal. Orr challenges us to look at language in a deep way (for those really interested in this idea - of 'how to be custodians of language' - look at Toni Morrison's Nobel Prize speech). Aside from the following questions please give your personal response to the chapter as clearly as possible.
2. On page 56 (bottom) Orr states, "We are no longer held together, as we once were, by the reading of a common literature or by listening to great stories and so cannot draw on a common set of metaphors and images as we once did"

• what do you think about his statement?
• what might be some implications of this be?
• Is it possible to develop an "architecture" around this principle? ** (go for this) (if so- what might it look like)