checking in

Got up after three hours of sleep and decided that I needed an extra sleep cycle. Went back down for another hour and a half before getting up and getting back to work with the computer model. Got some more interior shots and decided to call it good as studio came closer. Did a quick layout of my 4 20"x20" boards and took my laptop to school to print them out on our class plotter. It was broken. And so was the printer in the computer lab. Ended up printing a half sized version on a friends printer he'd brougt into class and just pinning that up. Our studio had a pretty pathetic pin up for this first round. We've just had no time for anything. Our final final final review is May 1st. Anyway, I ditched studio after talking with Steve and went home to eat something at five. Biked back to school at six for the Glenn Murcutt lecture. Murcutt is an Pritzker Prize-winning architect (the most prestigious award in architecture) from Australia who is about 7o years old. He runs his office out of his basement and his coworker is his wife. They do EVERYTHING from site surveying down to the electrical plans and gutter detailing for the design. And they do it all BY HAND. His works are heavily influenced by the designs of Mies van der Rohe, but combine them with a planar sensibility and organicism of Wright. Prett cool stuff actually. The only thing is that since its just him and his wife, he takes YEARS to finish designs. He's an interesting and especially provokative lecturer, criticizing everything from Starchitects to LEED certificiation. Very compelling ideologically, with definately strong social progressive overtones. Maybe I've just been too accustomed to american conservativism. Anyway, he lectured for three hours without break so there were no questions at the end.

It was fun before the thing started, as the lecture hall was packed with a varitable who's who of Phoenix Architects including Will Bruder and a bunch of other architects I've seen at major architecture functions. Of course all my archtiecture professors, past and present were also in attendance. Every seat was filled.

Afterwards, I went home, had some of Sally's leftovers, and watched part of Alien3 before begining this blog. I still have so much research to do for next tuesday, and our studio teacher wants another print out of our 20 x 20 boards for monday.

Even items on my list have thier own lists now.

Time for bed. I can't even think clearly anymore.