Christ the King Chapel

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A Chapel addition to the Christ the King Chapel in Agincourt, Iowa lays a foundation for experiential glee. The use of stain-glass windows within a mullioned roof unites the earth with the sun during the golden hour. The structure, like the ribs of a fish or a hull of a boat open the space to the alter of ceremony.

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The Dialectic Discourse of a Lazy Fellow

What is thy context?

Well time has arisen to find rapport on certain absences. All mild and sharp come days of lax for seasons bring harvests of knowledge. Work of walking, talking and photo taking deliver each their own in terms of discovery.

A harbour? A tunnel? A canal? Make a choice without context and you shall find design discovery. But you shall also be led astray is the realm of imagination. Design comes from much more than a mere use of a pretty photo or a neat feature--the deep treasures of "Human Ritual" brings total discovery! 

With all my clamoring and odd dialect we all find ourselves confused. 

{This is due to an absence of context.} See, once you understand the bases and grounding you find yourself re-reading and questioning what you just read. With the final and upcoming thesis year, all confusion will and must be dispersed to make way for future endeavors. I must learn what I can and find solace in what I know.

By solely studying Human Rituals the built environment will be crafted into purpose.

[Thesis topic]

Borromini-Bernini

The Site of Four Fountains Borromini

The glorious white dome

Baroque in flavor

A cloister for good sake

A lovely wood office

A passage into light

Music Hall

Museum

Crypt

Site of Bernini

Oval Space Arcade

Golden Arch

Golden Ceiling

Golden Alter&Baroque Marble

Arch and Statue

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With an accidental discovery and once more another, the original rivals found solace in my joyous heart.  Feigning broken banks and lack of clients, few architects try desperately to design away the other. Arch Enemies are expensive. Bernini had the loot though. Marble flourished within his gold-covered sanctuaries. Borromini relished much less in materials though. But his architecture was imbued with Gold as well--in spirit. Challenging to design without funds tends to craft intriguing architecture.

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A Living Painting

To step before a Grand Majesty

and a Living Will

To paint such a Omnipotent space

Languishes all before it

And the breath of light

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Gazing wide-eyed and deep into the chasm of an omnivorous structure shall send the classic shiver rupturing down the spine of any deponent. The Pantheon--a rather ancient building--is an paradigm of a Living Painting. A building that exemplifies the true beauty in design in which every angle becomes another frame. In some blunderbuss fashion, photographing any movement shall provide a lovely canvas.
There are few true designs that provide this means of photography.

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Tubes, Cables and Colours

Front?

Levitating Tube

Structural Detail

Top Tube and Roof Structure

The Mighty Handle

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The Pompado center in Paris shows off a unique and obtuse look. The structure emphatically poors its heart into the project. With geared arms and tubular wires the building drags the husk out of the ground. The rising Escalater, stair and vent tube runs alongside the buildings giving interesting lighting at night. 

The Monumental piece gave new meaning to this area and saved it from impoverishment. For the Center is a center for Art, art and people. Animated crowds gather to play their tunes and dance their jigs daily without recall. It is a unique experience.

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Stencils...Art or Graffiti?

Caen

Brussels "Space Invader"

Vienna - Beethoven's House

Paris

Paris

Paris

Marseille

Montpelier Tiling

Rabeux

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A filth has slowly covered the entity of architecture. It is a form of expression and rebellion. It is indeed relentless. But from the filth comes a bit of beauty and intrigue. Graffiti is a problem we shall face once day--to live with it or destroy it. Stencils on the other hand have caught my attention. They are rather crafting beauty than defiling a surface. Can it be called art?

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New Price Tag

A fourty-five minute walk in twenty,

Up the steep hill to the castle in scaffolding

To see inside a monument

Which broke the Bavarian bank three times

But made King Ludwig II happy

With joys of Medieval Pleasures

And built his Castle upon a mountain

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A Castle from the Middle ages built in the 18th Century houses a collection of over sized and fantasized prices. This is a castle of dreams. A castle that Disney took. A castle that should not exist but surely does. It is a gem among gems; aside from the scaffolding. It seems to be a season of repairs.

--This is Neu Schwanstein Schloss--

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