Asphalt to Collect Solar Energy

A few images from the last site visit. Alex chats as John and Mike of Living Art Austin lean on the rift cut white oak guardrail just freshly installed. Dennis has the spoon tub installed and the shower running.

Sunday Morsel 3

July 27, 2008 | mjneal

“There are no twelve-year-old geniuses in architecture,” remarked Le Corbusier.

Architecture is a field for irrepressible optimism and demands a tenacious staying power.

from Mexican Architecture, the work of Abraham Zabludovsky and Teodoro Gonzalez de Leon

by Paul Heyer

Dancing About the Mulberry Trees

July 23, 2008July 25, 2008 | mjneal

in 2003 we were asked to submit ideas for an Art Forum and Community Center in Annaka, Japan… Our design was centered about the Mulberry trees we were gonna plant, hundreds of them.

See if you can spot the kids with balloons and the dog (in the sketches.)

MJ and I have gone into macrobiotics lately, we are also learning Japanese cooking, of course, MJ has always been obsessed with Japan… You should see his Japanese collection of books. It’s just delicate and beautiful.

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What’s the WORD?

July 21, 2008July 25, 2008 | mjneal

This is an experimental short film produced for the 20×2.org interactive show at SXSW. A divertimento on the poetry by Fernando Pessoa. Written, produced, scored, edited, and directed by Viviane Vives for Barcelona Films.

Shot at the Ramp House.

Ok it’s about being invisible, but draw your own damn conclusions!

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Title photos: “words” by Jett Butler of FöDA Studio

The House that Will Never be.

July 21, 2008July 25, 2008 | mjneal

(Yet another one) For all those people that think the project on south 5 st, in Bouldin, is ours, no it isn’t! This is the house we had designed and permitted for South 5 St and that was never built.This was actually the second design for this extremely difficult lot. We posted the first design a while ago…

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