An exhibition of student works Friday, April 24th3 -9 p.m.
Guest reception to start at 7:00 p.m.
Location: Freedom Tower, at Miami Dade College 600 Biscayne Boulevard Gallery, Second Floor Downtown Miami

A great presentation great delivery and a great project …just what I would like my students to achieve

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The stone gardens of North and South campus ; practical solution or abstract poetry? How many times do we pause to look , see and reflect. These abstract “stone ponds” of north campus, as one of my students once called them are much more suggestive and tantalizing. Do they mean to induce a reflective mind state that should infuse a collegial environment ? or they are a succinct statement about impermanence and timeless? The pebbles round ”natural” or “imperfect” shapes stand in a dialectical juxtaposition to the prefabricated walls that define the campus tectonic condition.

Lone survivor  on Edgewater, a 1920′s bungalow. The resilient, reliable and too often ignored Miami  bungalows.

link :  http://www.americanbungalowmagazine.com/AmBungalow/miamifeature.html

what ‘s next?….link : http://www.miamiherald.com/460/story/973166.html

conference day kendall campus

conference day Miami Dade College  “The academical village” annual ritual gathering

"THE TREES"

Today was the perfect Miami sunny day and  the whole college  gathered at South Campus once again, like we do every year, to share insights about our students learning and our teaching experiences  . It was wonderful to see those  colleagues I do not get to see that often and to meet others for the first time.  I WAS WONDERING HOW MANY GET TO TOUCH THOSE LIMESTONE WALLS.

South Campus Oolitic Limestone walls

sverre fehn (1924 –2009)

“The use of a given material should never happen by choice or calculation, but only through intuition and desire”

venice pavillion photo;m.thomassen

link:  http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/28/arts/design/28fehn.html?ref=arts

Miadreaming…wonderful and centered

“All places exist somewhere between the inside and the outside views of them, the ways in which they compare to, and contrast with, other places. A sense of place is a virtual immersion that depends on lived experience and a topographical intimacy that is rare today both in ordinary life and traditional educational fields.”

The lure of the local,  Lucy Lippard

collins

the “primitive hut” artistically reconsidered

barajas airport terminal madrid

architecture at its most basic ; the primeval shelter based on a post and lintel structure.