reasons I love home #4

It's more exciting to boil water for coffee or tea in vintage vessels.

charrette starts...NOW

inspiration board.

Namibia desert | snakes | bird spikes | Air Force Academy Chapel | Corten steel | armadillo lizard | Sandra Backlund - Ink Blot Test | Frank Miller's Sin City | Lucy & Bart Exploded View

working on getting my semester-long studio project done. it's due May 1st, so less posting for now, unless I manage to squeeze in some quickie posts (which I usually end up doing).

FREEDOM(ish) in 7 days.

reasons I love home #3

There's always orange juice in the fridge.

light study - fins

Some abstract (and rough) renderings of light and shadow studies for my studio project - a civic building in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles. Skin system composed of pre-fabricated louvers of corten steel and glass. roof not yet resolved. yum?

reasons I love home #2

flowers, flowers everywhere.

edward muybridge

Edward Muybridge, an English photographer from the late 1800s, is most well-known for having captured the movement of humans and animals, thus allowing people to truly understand how these things move. He also invented the zoopraxiscope, an early device that could display motion pictures, which was just the next step after his pioneering of sequential photographs of movement.


So I bring this up because this sort of cinematic storytelling, this sequential line of views, can be taken into architecture, especially with the project I am working on. Vague and unhelpful, as I don't have photos of it to explain what I mean, but anyway, just wanted to note a current inspiration.

Oh and apart from all that other stuff he became famous for, look at how freaking beautiful this is. Edward Muybridge. Innovative and freakin' talented.

reasons I love home #1

Waking up to the smell of homemade meatball soup in the morning.

hummingbird adventures

In the middle of our project reviews there was a commotion - a hummingbird had fallen out of a tree and was frantically trying to take flight and return home. I don't think the flock of students trying to get a better view of it was helping, and after some time it tried flying again, when it flew into my face then crash-landed on my canvas bag. So a friend and I took the hummingbird away from people and tried "feeding" it a hibiscus flower. In the end we were able to get him back into his tree. Hope all is well, little fella.