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western assimilation**: 06.2010
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Eastward movement is included. Weeks three and four. It looks like I lost track of time and the past two weeks sped by. This is basically just a lenghty memo to myself, so enjoy! What's more, while insurance provides a feeling of security, damage always exposes vulnerability. Applying monetary value then becomes the most precise way to describing the value of things. Is value a function of singularity? Shohei Shigematsu from OMA gave a lecture on June 15. He talked about the tactical relationship bet...
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western assimilation**: fall.
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Eastward movement is included. All that said, i will make a concerted effort this fall to address this issue. this is largely a commitment to myself and is therefore largely self-indulgent, but i guess that's the point of most blogs anyhow. 12 dialogical / poetic strategies ]. Taught by yehuda safran. i missed the first class because i was enrolled for another, but i switched out because it wasn't exactly what i wanted. hopefully this class will blow my mind / knock my socks off. Its lightweight upper pr...
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western assimilation**: 09.2010
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Eastward movement is included. For example, the original name of the place called Lagos is Isale Eko, or the town of Eko. this name allowed the citizens to claim ownership of it, and helped establish another boundary between itself and the outsiders that collected there. it was the Portuguese who applied the name Lagos after a city in portugal, where lagos is Portuguese for lagoon. dissociation and reinvention are inextricably tied. What comes at the expense of distancing the capital from the grit, chaos...
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western assimilation**: 08.2010
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Eastward movement is included. Weeks 8 and 9. Post-mid-review called for a shift in focus to more practical matters, like program, programmatic diagrams, sections, and plans . but not too much. i was fully aware that i would continue to vacillate between the two (are there really just two states to begin with? Some images of sketches / models:. 01 spaces between the space of the fragment were beginning to become more crucial to the arrangement of the fragments than the fragments themselves. What does thi...
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western assimilation**: a schizophrenic nation.
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Eastward movement is included. Speed expands time by contracting space. It negates the notion of the physical dimension.". We are collectively swimming through a deep sea of data about the history of Nigeria. the forces that have shaped it into what it is today is both fascinating and tragic. i've managed to locate several maps, models and conceptual images of Tange's master plan for the city. they are, without question, depictions of a utopian and therefore imaginary place. A valid argument is that ther...
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western assimilation**: 02.2011
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Eastward movement is included. First graphic design / diagramming class with michael rock and yoonjai choi. lesson learned = it is just paper. funny how a white 8" x 8" box can turn you timid. Our first seminar with bernard tschumi is delayed until next wednesday. For our third publications seminar we had the pleasure of seeing several pieces Avery's rare books collection, including several original lithographs by corbusier. an original print of Le Poeme de l'Angle Droit pretty much stole the show. I tak...
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western assimilation**: 10.2010
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Eastward movement is included. The decorated shed meets tron. Aside from examining the urban conditions of nigeria's two major cities, one of the key subjects of debate within this studio is how nigeria copes with neoliberalism and how it will shape nigeria's future. the central concepts are global currencies, free trade, direct foreign investment and financial markets. why is this discussion crucial in the overall critique of nigeria? Because the concept that is missing is sovereign nations. Does it nec...
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western assimilation**: in-between.
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Eastward movement is included. The theme today is could be about nothing other than in-between-ness. the semester is officially halfway over. i'm halfway through my graduate program. my projects tend to drift into an exploration of the spaces between spaces. i feel half awake. it's time to take a step back to unpack all of that. Surface, screen, structure ]. 12 dialogical / poetic strategies ]. Anvas sneakers are mostly preferred by all as this footwear is casual Franklin Marshall. An adage Old is Gold c...
