MEET THE NELSONS

Recently, Wes Jones and Craig Hodgetts had a gallery Talk with Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design. See the flickr stream for more: Meet the Nelsons.
Exhibit is on until July 6th 2009, 6519 Hollywood Blvd.

PREFAB LAST SUMMER

a reason to live near Wilshire Center





Home Installation: really?

Well, before I dive into this subject I must mention that I am a big KieranTimberlake fan. More so, I believe that plug- in prefabrication win architecture will probably be re-evaluated in a more critical dialog of not just emergency and sustainable housing but economical housing- which is its current handicap in terms of being a pragmatic architecture.


Lastly, I am currently working on some more images for Design for the Children, even though the competition has passed, and I will be showing a re-visited LA housing project that I will be updated for the boards.




I had recently seen the new mall on Serrano/6th in LA Koretown these past few days- and I got say it looks promising since it includes a Korean based grocery store on the ground floor! Say what you want about the architecture, the program itself can make the Whilshire Cooridor in K-town look more promising. Now you have everything from metro lines/ law university to small clubs/ late night eating- what more can you want!?

REAL QUICK

Just trying to get some business cards going...eh, well- I wouldn't exactly call these business cards. These are more informal I believe because they are homemade and are meant to be like a micro contact/ portfolio image teaser/blogger account. If you would like one just let me know, otherwise I'll get to you first.





everyday I'm hustlin'

KICK, PUSH

I wished I had this instead of my Sprint phone! 

I am doing my best to stay committed to this blog in not just document work I am working on- but all other things I talked about in my first post. Right now, however, I am busy (which is a good thing) at my new workplace in Culver City, CA. I have been trying this week to MTA -in compared to last week where I drove along the Sepulveda Pass from the Valley. One thing I realize is that taking MTA allows me to explore sites of the Fairfax district and Mid&West LA- but DAMN I didn't know the 333 Washington and 780 Rapid buslines where horrendous. In the past two days I had and seen buses delibertely miss stops. These are overly congested line and MTA is definitely dropping the ball with not getting light-rail or subway lines out here soon enough!!

I do plan to do update of DFTC 2008 competition submittal we had- date has passed so now the project can be developed alot better. In the meanwhile, everyone should check out Winy Maas coming to UCLA next week and Benjamin Button giving a lecture at Sci_Arc on the 21st I believe.

NY STATE OF MIND

so much to say about NY! I will reconvene with more details but for now I leave you with this photo essay... cheers!





I will have PDFs of this available for upload soon!

update:1/29/09 -----> here it is (with some edits) :careful it's a little big!

NY!

And we're off! Hopefully we will start with a safe flight! Its about 6a at terminal 3 in LAX and I already from friends who went earlier back east to expect some turbulence. I can't wait to see P.S1 and the New Museum of Modern Art and the usual NY attractions. The terminal for Virgin America feels more like an expo than a terminal with its ultra chic-like booths and kiosks. Ah well.







Speaking of NY you might want to check this Woody Allen ode to Manhattan:
http://www.spaceandculture.org/2009/01/12/manhattan/

DFTC_2

Here are some diagrams we are working to show how our spine parti would give opportunites for expansion of the healthcare facilities and opportunities for small support spaces that occur at in-between spaces between the pods. From our view, the spine parti's masonry walls would be lateral forces and the pods could be modified for sunlight and rain collections(those drawings are coming shortly.) The key would be to show that the pods could me made from recycled materials (corrugated steel, recycled wood, and rebar, etc.) I will be in NY in the next few days to see family and some sights- and hopefully post some images as well.

REVISITING THE SUMO...

A year ago I was working on a project that was a tongue-in-cheek about the future of skyscrapers resulting as storage units. You can see it featured here at Urbanops.org and also read about in John Southern's recent blog about recent development at The Grove in Los Angeles here.






Update!: Click here!

DFTC_1

I have been working on Design for the Children, AIA Seattle, somewhat. Our team have been busy with other priorities- which is probably a good thing given the state of our current economy. Below are initial sketches of a prototype for the healthcare center that competition primarily asks for. Challenge is coming up with a form that would allow modular planning using indigenous materials (Rwanda,Uganda). The competition has also asked to show the building in two phases. I will plan to post more drawings throughout the week. It is crunch time and I believe that we can only submit a building at schematic design.


mortar ark + modular rooms

Welcome

Loris Ceechini,798 Art District 2006







For my first post, I am going to showcase some photos and photo-constructions that I have been working on over the past years. I am going to organize this blog in a chronological format, but in due time I will have an updated resume and work portfolio link located on the right for all to download and view Enjoy the photos and feel free to comment. Also, I will do my best to refrain from using ever again: "For my () post..." Here's to a productive 2009.



students, unknown, 798 Art District_Beijing 2006


Shanghai,barber 2006


Shanghai,subway 2006


spring,inverse 2006


Gold Line,los angeles 2006