Voices Breaking Boundaries presents East End Live Art: Teachers Speak Out
13 April 2009, 18:58
5:00 pm, Sunday, April 19, 2009 — Free Admission
Café Flores, 6606 Lawndale Street, Houston 77023
Teachers are on the front lines, combating this nation’s greatest challenges. With very little financial, legislative, or social support, teachers in Houston—one of the...
Arizona has lots of Cacti
9 April 2009, 14:13
I had the great pleasure of visiting Tucson, Arizona a couple of weeks ago. A short trip with a long (16 hour) drive. It was exhausting and entertaining all at the same time.
We did a few of...
Ike sounds a little like this
7 April 2009, 19:00
It has been a very long time since Hurricane Ike hit the Galveston and Houston areas. Shifting through some of our older files we located some audio we wanted to share. This is what our Montrose office sounded and looked...
Video: Implosion
7 April 2009, 17:23
Page-Parkes building implosion a few years ago…
Video: Motion 4
7 April 2009, 15:13
Excerpt of a video performance by Fernando Brave and Pablo Gimenez Zapiola at Project Row Houses in October 2003
BRAVE & Swamplot
26 March 2009, 20:14
Welcome to the office
26 March 2009, 18:57
Do you ever take into consideration how much time we spend at work? I am sure if you are in the architecture business you know that it is more than the average profession. Long hours and late nights. It is...
Function follows form?
25 March 2009, 21:22
While it is hard to imagine adaptive reuse projects by masters such as le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe or Frank Lloyd Wright, it is not as unusual to see some of the current stars working on such typology. Examples abound: from OMA’s Prada store in New York, formerly the SoHo branch of the Guggenheim Museum to Herzog & de Meuron’s CaixaForum, a transformed…
Going Back to Cali
24 March 2009, 23:07
Here are a few snapshots from my recent trip to the west coast. Unfortunately, the photographs were taken beneath cloudy skies (seriously?!) and created very dull backgrounds. However, I was able to hit up many of the newly completed museums...
Sweet sweet Typeface
20 March 2009, 15:16
I am a unique individual here at the firm, due to the fact that I do not have an architecture degree and also because when I...
