collage + truth

gaochun county catalyst

lotus pond ahead 

this trip to china was seven days fast and five cities deep. 

Yikes! yet again the summer has won and this blogbaby has been put on the shelf. i guess that means the same thing as it did the year before, and the year before that. we were on the move. moving about the western side of the US visiting cherished friends, making new ones, exploring fresh places, getting lost in mountain and city landscape alike. I am SO glad there was ample time to digress from school. it was two whole months of a true summertime, and perhaps the last for quite a while. but, that is just alright, because on the very near (read: tomorrow's) horizon is a quest to china. architecture, my livelihood and passion, is taking me here. i'm thrilled. the beautiful continent of asia will be gazed upon again. 

no promises but perhaps a sequence of china-based urbanism and design thoughts will manifest on here. 

[below]

a map of gaochun, the site of one project 

we will be visiting. polders abound. 

graduated.

master of some kind. most likely nudging pixels and drawing straight lines. 

NEWS FLASH! new location for this body: san antonio.
i never and i mean never would have said one, two, or eight years ago that i would move myself back to the homeland of san-an-tone. but the choice has been made and the job landing is extremely exciting. i am coming to hopeful terms with rediscovering this city. it is quite different than austin, and denver, and extremely different than berlin. 
but, here we go. another part of this incredible ride of life, and believe me, i'm on board. 

 

 

 

 

we be green

 

 

(if we're talking analogies)
progress : halfway :: sanity : zero
 

spatial catalog

a psycho-geography reading of berlin through experience.
a personal mapping of boundary and edge. 
an understanding of where identification was placed.

"But this is Berlin, the harsh capital of the northern barbarians. Everything here is too large or too flat, too distant or too close. Here, they can only manage vacant lots and demolitions. This was a garrison town; here was the Kaiser, and here was the war. Nothing is light and lively; everything is somehow off the mark"

[george diez]: article

so this one time. actually this 5 times,
i went on a walk. 

inspired by artist richard long.