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Here I am in the B. & A. Spitzer School working on a Wikipedia article entitled Housing theories. This is my first attempt at writing/editing Wikipedia. So far it is simply a list of related subjects taken from the syllabus of Professor Hermanuz's Housing Theory class. The page has been targeted for deletion. If anyone knows how to make this not happen please advise.
Last night I went to a book talk at the CWE (Center for Worker Education, just west of the Bull)given by John T. Matteson, then went home, made soup and watched a very sweet and beautiful dvd entitled Jellyfish
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mardi, septembre 22, 2009
mercredi, septembre 09, 2009
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Strange Days
Greg Williams, the President of CCNY resigned today.
Sunday I was standing in a NewsStand Near Bryant Park. The manager, Michael was showing me how to do the accounting and run the lottery ticket machine as I was considering working there. There was a pause in the conversation and I found myself staring out the window as someone held a wooden stick, like a mop or axe handle in front of me for a few seconds, long enough for me to think, "Wooden stick" and start to wonder "Who is holding this stick?" and "Should we duck?"--literally, a few seconds. By the time I turned my head to look at Michael, he had already been struck in the face with this stick . I turned my head back to the stick in time to see it disappear quickly. I stuck my head out but not in time to see the perp. Michael was holding his right cheek and a bright stream of blood was running out from between his fingers. He looked very shocked. I handed him a cloth to catch the blood. He handed me the phone and told me to call 911. The mop handle or whatever it was had gone completely through this cheek. There was a hole in his cheek the size of a Kennedy silver dollar. Michael told the police that he knew the guy. They wanted him to go looking for the guy with a Kennedy silver dollar sized hole in his cheek.
Now I am about to go to talk about housing theories with fifteen or twenty Future Homemakers of America. We are meant to have read Martin Heidegger's Poetry, Language, Thought and Some Comments on a Significant Detour by Aldo Van Eyck as well as Something by Le Corbusier.
I keep wondering who would do that to Michael and why.
Strange Days
Greg Williams, the President of CCNY resigned today.
Sunday I was standing in a NewsStand Near Bryant Park. The manager, Michael was showing me how to do the accounting and run the lottery ticket machine as I was considering working there. There was a pause in the conversation and I found myself staring out the window as someone held a wooden stick, like a mop or axe handle in front of me for a few seconds, long enough for me to think, "Wooden stick" and start to wonder "Who is holding this stick?" and "Should we duck?"--literally, a few seconds. By the time I turned my head to look at Michael, he had already been struck in the face with this stick . I turned my head back to the stick in time to see it disappear quickly. I stuck my head out but not in time to see the perp. Michael was holding his right cheek and a bright stream of blood was running out from between his fingers. He looked very shocked. I handed him a cloth to catch the blood. He handed me the phone and told me to call 911. The mop handle or whatever it was had gone completely through this cheek. There was a hole in his cheek the size of a Kennedy silver dollar. Michael told the police that he knew the guy. They wanted him to go looking for the guy with a Kennedy silver dollar sized hole in his cheek.
Now I am about to go to talk about housing theories with fifteen or twenty Future Homemakers of America. We are meant to have read Martin Heidegger's Poetry, Language, Thought and Some Comments on a Significant Detour by Aldo Van Eyck as well as Something by Le Corbusier.
I keep wondering who would do that to Michael and why.
mardi, septembre 08, 2009
Housing Theories
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I am taking a course on housing theories at CCNY this semester.Here are some of the housing developments we can chose to research:
Harlem River Houses
http://www.google.com/search?q=Harlem+River+Houses&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Butterfield House
Kips Bay Plaza
http://www.google.com/search?q=Kips+Bay+Plaza&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Riverbend
Marcus Garvey Housing
Eastwood Apartments
Washington Court
Peabody Terrace
Price Tower
Habitat
Narkomfin
Unite d'Habitation
Hansaviertel (Aalto)
Hansaviertel (Bakema)
Robin Hood
Nexus World (Koolhass)
Nexus World (Steve Holl)
Nemausus
Residential/Lugano
I am taking a course on housing theories at CCNY this semester.Here are some of the housing developments we can chose to research:
Harlem River Houses
http://www.google.com/search?q=Harlem+River+Houses&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Butterfield House
Kips Bay Plaza
http://www.google.com/search?q=Kips+Bay+Plaza&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Riverbend
Marcus Garvey Housing
Eastwood Apartments
Washington Court
Peabody Terrace
Price Tower
Habitat
Narkomfin
Unite d'Habitation
Hansaviertel (Aalto)
Hansaviertel (Bakema)
Robin Hood
Nexus World (Koolhass)
Nexus World (Steve Holl)
Nemausus
Residential/Lugano
mardi, septembre 01, 2009
Gardens of China
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Landscape Design for the Middle East, Tropical TImbers of the World, SEELYE-DESIGN, Environmental Design: Research and Practice, Engineering Weather Data, Handbook of Noise control, Surfaces, Paints and Coatings, Encyclopedia of Wood, Architectural Metals, Wind in Architectural and Environmental Design, Design of Wood Structures, The Masonry Glossary, Concrete Construction Handbook, Streetscape Equipment Sourcebook, Water Supply and Waste Disposal, Building of Roman Aquaducts, The Subway, By the El, Under the Sidwalks of New York, Notre Metro, Six Bridges, An Illustrated dictionary of building, Les Materiaux de Construction, HIstory of Chicago Building, Building in England, Japan's Construction, Understanding Buildings, VNR Metric Handbook, Field Guide to Trees, Growth and Form, Design for Assisted Living, Soil Survey of Suffolk County NY, Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening
Landscape Design for the Middle East, Tropical TImbers of the World, SEELYE-DESIGN, Environmental Design: Research and Practice, Engineering Weather Data, Handbook of Noise control, Surfaces, Paints and Coatings, Encyclopedia of Wood, Architectural Metals, Wind in Architectural and Environmental Design, Design of Wood Structures, The Masonry Glossary, Concrete Construction Handbook, Streetscape Equipment Sourcebook, Water Supply and Waste Disposal, Building of Roman Aquaducts, The Subway, By the El, Under the Sidwalks of New York, Notre Metro, Six Bridges, An Illustrated dictionary of building, Les Materiaux de Construction, HIstory of Chicago Building, Building in England, Japan's Construction, Understanding Buildings, VNR Metric Handbook, Field Guide to Trees, Growth and Form, Design for Assisted Living, Soil Survey of Suffolk County NY, Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening
mercredi, août 26, 2009
Post Post Modern?
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I am here inside the Very New Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at CCNY. I feel a bit wierd about the name, but maybe I am getting used to it. Since I learned of the name a few months ago I have notice the spitting is a popular past time/event in the surrounding neighborhood. Apparently AF=Bernard Spitzer was (is?) an architect/engineer/real NY Real Estate mogul who spawned AF=Elliot Spitzer, former Governor of NY. (Can you tell I have become increasingly skeptical about given identities in the six years since I moved to Manhattan?)I would love if there could be a watermelon-seed spitting contest to christen the building.
This Fall I am taking a course in World Architecture and attempting to get a leg up on the reading this week. (I cheated my way through world history class at John Marshall H.S.. Don't tell Coach Kirby.)
As for the building, I enthusiastically give two thumbs up. Mostly my praise is for the excellent lighting, beautiful floors, and large amounts of public space including a central gallery space. (Someday someone will invent public toilets that don't spray water everywhere when flushed...but not this year...not here.)
I am here inside the Very New Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at CCNY. I feel a bit wierd about the name, but maybe I am getting used to it. Since I learned of the name a few months ago I have notice the spitting is a popular past time/event in the surrounding neighborhood. Apparently AF=Bernard Spitzer was (is?) an architect/engineer/real NY Real Estate mogul who spawned AF=Elliot Spitzer, former Governor of NY. (Can you tell I have become increasingly skeptical about given identities in the six years since I moved to Manhattan?)I would love if there could be a watermelon-seed spitting contest to christen the building.
This Fall I am taking a course in World Architecture and attempting to get a leg up on the reading this week. (I cheated my way through world history class at John Marshall H.S.. Don't tell Coach Kirby.)
As for the building, I enthusiastically give two thumbs up. Mostly my praise is for the excellent lighting, beautiful floors, and large amounts of public space including a central gallery space. (Someday someone will invent public toilets that don't spray water everywhere when flushed...but not this year...not here.)
mardi, août 25, 2009
Thermodynamics--The Musical
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It's hot as something unbeliveably hot...well not really. (NYC in the summer is paradise compared to the earth scorching triple 104's of central Texas.) Anyway I am taking shelter in the AC of the NAC at CCNY where I recently registered for a World Architecture class.
I spoke to one of my neighbors today about the amazingly bad condition of the building we inhabit. How nice it would be to live in a clean building with a rooftop garden and a plant filled courtyard, an elevator than runs and is not filled with the scent of urine...sigh. Where there is life there is hope--to quote a teabag.
The University of Nebraska has begun sending me books to review. The first one is a book of poems, Taste of Cherry, by Kara Candito. The picture on the back reminds me of a girl who went to my elementary school. She looks nice.
It's hot as something unbeliveably hot...well not really. (NYC in the summer is paradise compared to the earth scorching triple 104's of central Texas.) Anyway I am taking shelter in the AC of the NAC at CCNY where I recently registered for a World Architecture class.
I spoke to one of my neighbors today about the amazingly bad condition of the building we inhabit. How nice it would be to live in a clean building with a rooftop garden and a plant filled courtyard, an elevator than runs and is not filled with the scent of urine...sigh. Where there is life there is hope--to quote a teabag.
The University of Nebraska has begun sending me books to review. The first one is a book of poems, Taste of Cherry, by Kara Candito. The picture on the back reminds me of a girl who went to my elementary school. She looks nice.
mercredi, juin 24, 2009
The Experience of Modernity
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These long days I am walking (again) from Coney Island to the Bronx Botanical Gardens taking photos and reading about Modernism according to Marshall Berman who coinsidentally was roomates with Michael Templon (not his real name?)a few weeks ago when he was in the hospital having his adominal aorta repaired (Michael T. that is. Michael said Berman was having a knee replacement.)So far this book (All that is Solid Melts into Air)has been mostly about Faust and his deals with Mephisto.
These long days I am walking (again) from Coney Island to the Bronx Botanical Gardens taking photos and reading about Modernism according to Marshall Berman who coinsidentally was roomates with Michael Templon (not his real name?)a few weeks ago when he was in the hospital having his adominal aorta repaired (Michael T. that is. Michael said Berman was having a knee replacement.)So far this book (All that is Solid Melts into Air)has been mostly about Faust and his deals with Mephisto.
vendredi, mai 15, 2009
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vendredi, février 27, 2009
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I am here at Krishna's attempting to upload the second half of the people pictures from the 2008 Walk. Unfortunately there are some technical difficulties and I will have to try again another day.
I've been singing in the choir at 4th U Church on the west side which, if you know me you know, is kind of a feat because I am not especially gifted in this arena. This lack of training/talent is heightened by the fact that pretty much everyone else seems to be fantastically talented. Luckily, everyone there is also very nice and good at teaching and tolerating the less musical. I wish I was saying this to be modest. Krishna lent me a book called Music Theory for Idiots. This book has actually helped, causing no less than three epiphanies so far.
The church is also hosting a production of the Vagina Monologues (April 4th). This has pretty amazing as far as church experiences go. It prompted me to go to the library and check out the book.
I have started to practice typing/writing by typing one 11pt page every morning (or almost every morning). This has been good. I've also taken up belly dancing.
Last night Charlie Rose had a guy from Amazon Books on talking about Kindel (sp?) paperless reading devices. This guy looked very much like Tom Beach if Tom Beach had gone partially bald and gotten a very conservative hair style. Apparently, Amazon or his branch of the business is buying up land in Texas and building spaceships.
I am here at Krishna's attempting to upload the second half of the people pictures from the 2008 Walk. Unfortunately there are some technical difficulties and I will have to try again another day.
I've been singing in the choir at 4th U Church on the west side which, if you know me you know, is kind of a feat because I am not especially gifted in this arena. This lack of training/talent is heightened by the fact that pretty much everyone else seems to be fantastically talented. Luckily, everyone there is also very nice and good at teaching and tolerating the less musical. I wish I was saying this to be modest. Krishna lent me a book called Music Theory for Idiots. This book has actually helped, causing no less than three epiphanies so far.
The church is also hosting a production of the Vagina Monologues (April 4th). This has pretty amazing as far as church experiences go. It prompted me to go to the library and check out the book.
I have started to practice typing/writing by typing one 11pt page every morning (or almost every morning). This has been good. I've also taken up belly dancing.
Last night Charlie Rose had a guy from Amazon Books on talking about Kindel (sp?) paperless reading devices. This guy looked very much like Tom Beach if Tom Beach had gone partially bald and gotten a very conservative hair style. Apparently, Amazon or his branch of the business is buying up land in Texas and building spaceships.
vendredi, janvier 02, 2009
Walking through Downtown Brooklyn, Chinatown, NYU to Bryant park
Vatya & Eli Levi
Jilberto
Turan
Anah, Alexa & Stephanie
Carolin Chin
Amy at the Center for Architecture
Ryan at Housing Works
Reef
New Museum
Russel Reaves & Rashawn
Dennis Christie
Shateisha
Mr. S Wayne & (Johnny B.?)
Louis
Randy Chin
Louis
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jeudi, décembre 18, 2008
mardi, décembre 16, 2008
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Snow! Great big fluffy hunks of it were falling as I walked around the cemetary, down 4th and Flatbush to the Dekalb st.
Last night I went to a good talk called Eutopia Now at the Center for Worker Education (25 Broadway right next to the Bull). Michael Sorkin spoke in amusing tones about zoning, soy plastics,new urban vehicals, Santa Monica, Far rockaway, 600 Miles of waterfront, artificial islands, better ones (bedouins?), photovoltaics, parks, and showed some great images. I rode down in the elevator with him and Greg Williams, the president of the CCNY, but couldn't think of anything witty to say.
Here is a list of terms that I had to look up:
Prolix
Levon?
Malthusian
Berman
Arverne
Arendt
Buzz Passwell
Bio-remediation
I have loads of pictures from the walk, but can't up-load them here at the library.
Snow! Great big fluffy hunks of it were falling as I walked around the cemetary, down 4th and Flatbush to the Dekalb st.
Last night I went to a good talk called Eutopia Now at the Center for Worker Education (25 Broadway right next to the Bull). Michael Sorkin spoke in amusing tones about zoning, soy plastics,new urban vehicals, Santa Monica, Far rockaway, 600 Miles of waterfront, artificial islands, better ones (bedouins?), photovoltaics, parks, and showed some great images. I rode down in the elevator with him and Greg Williams, the president of the CCNY, but couldn't think of anything witty to say.
Here is a list of terms that I had to look up:
Prolix
Levon?
Malthusian
Berman
Arverne
Arendt
Buzz Passwell
Bio-remediation
I have loads of pictures from the walk, but can't up-load them here at the library.
mercredi, décembre 10, 2008
Henry Mayzick
Kristina Gindinova
Carol Solovay
Laureano Feliciano
Ary & his mother
Angelica, Catherine and Amanda
Some of Ms. Kosovich's (sp.?) Social Studies students at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shallow_Jr.Highhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shallow_Jr.Highhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shallow_Jr.High//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shallow_Jr.High
Shirley and her very cute dog.
John Dooley recommends this website: www.nycsubway.org
Mike and co-workers near New Utrecht
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