Into The Mind http://blog.lib.umn.edu/singe082/architecture/ en Copyright 2011 Mon, 06 Nov 2006 23:32:07 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.31-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Geodesic Domes Find a series of images (individual or part of a series) that somehow connect design to mathematics. comment

After, no more then say 10 minutes ago realising that, NO, I had not done my blog and, YES, class is tomorrow I scrambled to think of something that connects a really cool thing, Design to something not cool at all, Math.

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As I thought, I realised as I normally do, that math is totally unavoidable when it comes to the "real" world and that architecture is full of it. I guess it was there all along and I was just avoiding the fact. I though back to my math classes and remember about Geodesic Domes and how there's math in them.

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/singe082/architecture/2006/11/geodesic_domes.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/singe082/architecture/2006/11/geodesic_domes.html Mon, 06 Nov 2006 23:32:07 +0000 Oppositions Observe and document some oppositions- and their possible resolutions.

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Really when you look around your life there's oppositions everywhere.
The movies we watch, the jobs we do, the way we get from place to place, the assigned class work. The list could go on and on even with out mentioning the Oppositions in the built environment, of which there are many.

If oppositions were as easy to deal with as they are in the movies
A) the USA would be blowing the middle east up right now... not that our government isn't doing it's best to

B) Tony Montana would be great at resolving things tonymontana.gif

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/singe082/architecture/2006/10/oppositions.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/singe082/architecture/2006/10/oppositions.html Mon, 23 Oct 2006 23:23:18 +0000 Phenomena? Rising up out of the bank of the Mississippi a large blue and yellow phenomena know among other things as "Ikea on Viagra" or by the more widely recognized title: The Guthrie Theater.
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Funny what a little photo editing can make ya think

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/singe082/architecture/2006/10/phenomena.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/singe082/architecture/2006/10/phenomena.html Blog Prompt Mon, 09 Oct 2006 23:37:35 +0000 Blog 3 Response When I got the prompt my first thoughts were "what the? that's from the reading I didn't get."
When I first started reading the readings and had gotten to the Genius Loci text I had struggled
through about a page, maybe two before I just flat out gave up and skipped over that reading.

Going back I found Genius Loci means the "spirit of place". That set of another round of thoughts
running though my mind. "What places count? Which place means most to me?
Why don't I have any pictures of that place." Once I sat down at the computer and started on one idea
I finally came to an idea, my thoughts settled on a unschoolers camp that I have gone to out in Organ
for the past two years. The spirit of NBTSC (Not Back To School Camp) is very much like the spirit
I go through my life with so it's a very meaningful and special place for me.

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/singe082/architecture/2006/10/blog_3_response.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/singe082/architecture/2006/10/blog_3_response.html Blog Prompt Mon, 02 Oct 2006 19:04:42 +0000 Find a social design issue. Document it. Become an advocate for it. 0406sm-10_lg.jpg
Over the week I have struggled to find something that fits with the blog prompt.
So I finally, last night, decided to go with the social issue of poverty. Thomas Fisher's guest lecture last week really hit home with me; the design and architecture jobs that the students working under Samuel "Sambo" Mockbee are very close to some of the projects I hope to complete as an architect.

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/singe082/architecture/2006/09/find_a_social_design_issue_doc.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/singe082/architecture/2006/09/find_a_social_design_issue_doc.html Arch 1701 Mon, 25 Sep 2006 19:25:40 +0000 Blog Prompt week of sept 12th Go to the Midtown Market on Lake St. Observe. Define Energy. List the ways in which you might create, use and exchange energy here.

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/singe082/architecture/2006/09/blog_prompt_week_of_sept_12th.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/singe082/architecture/2006/09/blog_prompt_week_of_sept_12th.html Blog Prompt Sun, 17 Sep 2006 21:07:13 +0000 Welcome to my mind Welcome to my new blog.
I'll start off by saying a little about who I am.
My name is Jeb I'm 17 I am curently talking classes at the U of M through a program called PSEO.
The classes at the U are really my reason for this Blog. Part of out weekly assignment in Arch 1701 The Design Environment is to post blogs on diffrent blog prompts we are given by our Professor, Ozayr Saloojee.
So Welcome and enjoy my random thoughs and words.
~Jeb

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/singe082/architecture/2006/09/welcome_to_my_mind.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/singe082/architecture/2006/09/welcome_to_my_mind.html Random Thoughs Sat, 16 Sep 2006 21:21:07 +0000 Midtown Market Even before you arrive at the Midtown Market, the energy of many blending cultures is apparent. As you drive up Lake St. past Hiawatha many cultures are showcased:A Mexican horse outfitter, all the way to a Swedish shoppe wish a sign in the window proclaiming "lutefisk available during construction!"

When you go through the market doors a wave of colors, smells, sounds and cultures blasts into your senses. As I wandered through the market I was drawn to a smell pouring from a corner of the market, a Mexican bakery had just took out a batch of different cookies, breads and other great smelling baked goods.


Interesting Shops:

Native American craft store.

Scandinavian store (collectibles, and food)

Middle Eastern Gyro place (looked very tempting, but I had no money)

Chinese Restaurant (yum, cream cheese won-tons)

South African (cool wood carvings etc.)

Massage Place (you could feel relaxing energy coming out of there)

Japanese Convince Store (even Japanese energy drinks!)

Andy's Garage (Just a little bit out of place?)

Many little open courts provide a lunch spot for the bustle of midtown business people, as I walked around a meeting of many people in full suit get up was just beginning and carried on happily all through out my time there.

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/singe082/architecture/2006/09/midtown_market.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/singe082/architecture/2006/09/midtown_market.html Arch 1701 Sat, 16 Sep 2006 21:13:14 +0000