In the beginning, we knew it was coming.
The CQRGC Healthy Places January monthly meeting’s topic was the Connect Atlanta plan, the city’s new comprehensive transportation plan. The presentation was enlightening in multiple ways, but one notable piece of information eschewed my perception of a piece of Atlanta’s transportation development history. When the Connect Atlanta plan came out, many people I knew … Read more
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
possibly moving forward
While cute little diagrams like this will get you points on the ARE exam, it really doesn’t do all that much for helping you integrate building form and design intent. I’ve recently gotten stuck in converting my (text) concept into (shape) form. Or as our instructor put it, “everyone wants to save the world, but … Read more
