Rick Lowe = demi god + Loeb Fellow
And, in case, just like I did, you’ve relegated Rick to the “social- activist- artist- in- residence- experimental- housing- neighborhood- activist- of- socialness” category . . . I just found this from the Heinz Awards website: This year he is a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard University School of Design, and he is currently working … Read more
Rick Lowe = demi god
As part of the “re/constructingatlanta: a contemporary continuum” intervention, Lowe was a highlighted speaker. His lecture was titled “Sculpting the Built Environment”. His work was initially influenced by John Biggers, an artist who studied the social impacts fo the shot gun house. Lowe’s social variation on this, he calls Project Row House, was built in … Read more
10 Urbanisms
Also in the GSD Winter 07 magazine, is a short article – list really – of an ongoing research project conducted by Joan Busquets. The research attempts to classify the various types of urban and architectural interventions that are taking place in our cities today. This is, when I signed up for history of urban … Read more
ciudades del futuro
“Cities of the Future” was sponsored by the History Channel, here in Atlanta this year. Washington DC and San Francisco were also featured. The competition encourages architect’s utopian visions of how our cities may be formed in the next hundred years. Many, many of my past/present/and future studio professors were involved. Some through the official … Read more
