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.ScreenshotThe 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