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... The title of this blog has to do with a Will Bruder quote I heard while attending the University of Arizona College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture (CAPLA) during the Fall of 1999 - "Learn to master the trash can and you might become something" - It really resonated with me and has stuck with me to this day. I suppose for me the concept hit hard that although you can discard an idea, concept, sketch, design, whatever for a certain project you may be able to revisit it at a later date under different circumstances - In other words designs never die, they evolve, they hibernate, they circle-back but they never die...Or maybe he was just telling us to quit our ideas of becoming Architects and to go live in a public park somewhere; which, given the current state of the industry probably would not have been such a bad idea...

That is what this Blog will be for me - With over a decade in the industry I have come to realize that what I thought I would be doing on a daily basis and what I actually do are pretty darn different - BUT - I still have ideas, I still have hopes and I still have my creativity; So, I figured this would be a good outlet...I will share my thoughts on work and the industry as well as whatever moments of creativity I can muster - And, yes, at the direction of my Wife I will keep the swearing to an absolute minimum.

Cheers...B.

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

A LITTLE LOVE FOR LEBBEUS WOODS:

... So, last year on this date Lebbeus Woods passed away - He would have turned 73 years old this past May - And thinking of his life's work made me contemplate Architect's legacies and what we leave behind...Naturally, there are the physical buildings that live beyond us - (...well, until developers come in, purchase the land for its innate value and bull-doze the existing buildings to build an AM/PM; what? - Too cynical?) - But what about our ideas, our visions, our concepts and dreams?

What about our drawings, concept models, sketchbooks and notebooks? - What about our essence? - Do those things live on or do they simply get packed away in a box somewhere to collect dust in an attic? - Who is the Shepherd of the Architect's soul after his time has expired?

... Do I really want to know the answer to this question?

I suppose I wanted this post to somehow reflect on the life and times of Lebbeus - HIS dreams and HIS visions, HIS sketches, HIS installations and HIS concepts...Yet I have somehow stumbled onto a larger topic - So, let us reflect.............

R.I.P. Lebbeus Woods (May 31, 1940 to October 30, 2012)

Rest in Peace to the Architect who once sued Hollywood over an idea and won...Here are a few links to his Blog; both eerily frozen in time and sort of in the same vein as my ramblings above:

... Finally, I leave you with some images from Lebbeus Woods' "Neomechanical Tower (Upper) Chamber" concept sketch and the plagiarized version that was used the movie "12 Monkeys" staring Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt...This obviously was at the heart of the lawsuit I mentioned earlier - It truly is an interesting juxtaposition when you really think about it:

LEBBEUS WOODS' CONCEPT SKETCH:


A SIDE-BY-SIDE OF THE MOVIE AND THE SKETCH:


A COLOR IMAGE FROM THE MOVIE:


I have to bounce - The Baby is crying; cheers...
B.
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