Sunday Morsel 8
“When Geometric Diagrams…”
When geometric diagrams and digits
Are no longer the keys to living things,
When people who go about singing and kissing
Know deeper things than the great scholars,
When society is returned once more
To unimprisoned life, and to the universe,
And when light and darkness mate
Once more and make something entirely transparent,
And people see in poems and fairy tales
The true history of the world,
Then our entire twisted nature will turn
And run when a single secret word is spoken.
Novalis/ 1800
translated by Robert Bly in News of the Universe: Poems of Twofold Consciousness
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Cory Ryan’s Pics of Den @ Tour

- Viviane’s pictures in display at the Den and visitors. Photo Cory Ryan

- I love this photo: Thanks Cory! You can see the rest of the shoot here. Den’s Brown Bathroom with Men. Photo Cory Ryan
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Thanks for taking the time ShawnMon! And thanks everyone for coming!
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Tour the Den…
Jamie and Alex have graciously opened the Wolfe Den up once again for the
Modern Homes Tour in Austin January 30. If you missed it on the AIA homes tour or want to get a second look here’s your chance.
Thanks again guys!

photo Viviane Vives
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icey_farley
Icey Farley, by the way, if you haven’t seen his blog, today is your lucky day.

Photo by Kritikal Kyle
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Tags: austin contemporary architect, Cool Other People, mj neal, Sustainability, sustainable
my last post was:
“Seven green new year resolutions”
Other posts:
What’s Missing Architect Maya Lin’s latest memorial includes film “Unchopping a Tree.”
Seven day countdown on kickstarter for The Windowfarms Project
posted by Viviane
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Water everywhere, my kind of place… The old house is integrated as it’s transformed. Posted by Viviane
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Windowfarms Countdown, help!
Window Farms Kickstarter.mp4
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Student Award Finalist
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TSA Judges Speak
2009 Texas Society of Architects Design Awards Video #3
…and thanks for all the fish…
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Cool Duplex in Austin, TX…
… or how to get around the McMansion ordinance and its hatred towards much needed duplexes and still have cool design.Notice how the articulation makes the building seem to move and how the shared wall and the front are broken up and shifted to prevent a massive look.
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I know you’ve been dying to see the Wolfe Den and get a tour… well… this weekend is the AIA Homes tour and the Wolfe Den is one of the selected homes. MJ and many gorgeous, young, and talented docents will be available all weekend to answer your burning questions about this fabulous home that has already won all local and state awards. It has been published in Dwell and reviewed in the contemporist.
To find out all about it go to the AIA homes Tour site; this site, the brochure, poster and all other marketing materials have been designed this year by our incomparable friends at FODA studio.
photo by Jonathan H Jackson
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We’re in Dwell again!
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4th of July at the Neighbor’s
We have the best neighbors, here’s a few pics I took at their house on July 4th, 2009.
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RIP, Goddess
Lucia Rodriguez, the incredible, beautiful, sweet, and talented dancer from Austin, Texas who died tragically by driving into the lake when her car reached the ramp at the end of Quinlan road. This ramp lacks proper signage or proper lighting. A terrible loss of a wonderful artist for all of us. Please join us in asking the City of Austin to make changes to this road (and other similar roads who end in the lake with no sufficient lighting or warning…) so no one has another senseless accident.
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