Duh!
MVVA-- How did it not come up in any design discussions in your office that metal is hot?
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/19/nyregion/19orbs.html?ref=nyregion
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NYC: Ecological Urbanism Book Launch
The book launch for Ecological Urbanism will be held at Storefront for Art and Architecture next Tuesday, June 22 from 7-9. Ok I will say it: Be there!!!
Ecological Urbanism is compilation of essays on landscape urbanism edited by Mohsen Mostafavi with Gareth Doherty.
Trees of Brooklyn Bridge Park
Join me this Saturday at 10:30am on the newly opened Pier 1 at Brooklyn Bridge Park as I give a tour of the pier and it's plants. I will be teaching how to identify some of the trees in the park, how to use the highly advanced, tree measuring Height-O-Meter as well as talking about the sustainable measures that were taken in building the park. For more informaion about free programming in the park click here.
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DF in Nueva York
Postopolis DF is being held this week in a simulcast type scenario -From their website, Postopolis is:
a public five-day session of near-continuous conversation curated by some of the world’s most prominent bloggers from the fields of architecture, art, urbanism, landscape, music and design. 10 world-renowned bloggers from Los Angeles, New York, Turin, Barcelona, London and elsewhere will convene in one location in Mexico City to host a series of discussions, interviews, slideshows, presentations, films and panels fusing the informal and interdisciplinary approach of the architecture blogosphere with rare face-to-face interaction.
Unpaid Internships
While hopefully not endemic in the l.a. field, I've certainly heard a number of stories as of recent about unpaid internships, extremely low wages, and 'volunteer' work. This is a re-post from Architizer which today brought to my attention this fantastic blog site:
http://pimpingarchitects.blogspot.com/ aka 'architects who eat their young'