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In this slideshow we cover –
Overall pattern, borders & edges that define the space, flow and circulation, light and shadows. From the angle of construction and ‘environment’, we consider permeability, drainage, subsurface foundation or supports, price, availability, ease of transport & sustainability. And over time, let us ponder durability and maintenance. In class, we will get your hands on the materials themselves, so that you can know them both academically intellectually, as well as by feel.

This is a slideshow about cultures meeting, fighting, trading, and the eventual development of greenhouses.

Captain Samuel Wallis being received by Queen Oberea on the Island of Tahiti, 1767 (19th century). Scene from Samuel Wallis’s voyage of circumnavigation in HMS ‘Dolphin’, undertaken from 1766-1768. Wallis is believed to have been the first European to visit Tahiti, which he sighted on 18th June 1767.
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The Wardian case was a portable airtight greenhouse developed by Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward to protect live plant material during transportation

This is a slideshow about our consumption of goods grown in greenhouses. What kind of plants, where, why and so on. We discuss the costs of transportation, production, and how to grow and maintain a high quality product.

Hopi footprints led north
towards the back door of the continent
walking the rounds overland
in a swastika spiral migration
to reach the center

Following the sawtoothed mountain spines
I came across basins and bowls
salt lakes and sage brush flats dimpled with junipers
wind coming off distant ridges
and folks playing hide and seek amidst grass covered lodges

The rivers snaked east
then wound north and south
my hard working salmon brothers were goin up river to visit relatives
portaging past waterfalls and resting under ledges
I walked alongside, and chatted about the state of gravel

Wanted a better view, up on high
and so up past a wash of blazing stars I went
it was spring by now, bugs whistling tunes
tall green grass obscured all sights
wheat, rye, june, fescue, needle and good ol sacaton

Up on the rocky bluff
a family of Shoshone was just in from a hunt
we shared pine nuts and groundhog heart in a stone bowl
in that morning light, all I could do was dream of tracking sheep
meanwhile soaring in the sky was eagles on thermals