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Yasujiro Ozu
小津安二郎
Tokyo Ga

Blocked

Well, I think I'm blocked by many things this week, since last Saturday I haven't got much progress. Today I just had my first exam of the astronomy class, which was more difficult than I expected, but it was really interesting and I do not want to drop it, though I'm really freaked out recently...

What I really don't like is that Professional Practice class about all kind of dark side story of attorneys, Alan is a kind person but I just can't figure out those legal problems and always fall in sleep at class. And now, the case study project and the take home test due in next week are all about to fuck me. Oh, help me my "little universe".

Ans maybe I need to start to think about the travel plan...

sum up.

That's it.

I don't know.

By the way, hope the Rice Owls have a nice performance in next game.

ripple or explode

I'm not sure to call it ripple or explode. Actually I was just trying to figure out where to put those retention tanks, literally the low points, on my field.

Oh, here comes this word "field". I forget whether I had read Allen's "field condition", I remember I did, yet I really forget its content. Anyway, I need to read it before Troy's class...

compare Corb with others

Crisis of the Object, Colin Row

"But, if the multiplication of spaces long ago began to elicit such disgust, then what is there now to be said about the proliferation of objects? In other words, whatever may be said about the proliferation of objects? In other word, what ever may be said about the traditional city, is it possible that the city of modern architecture can sustain anything like so adequate a perceptual base? And the obvious answer would seem to be not, for it is surely apparent that, while limited structured spaces may facilitate identification and understanding, an interminable naturalistic void without any recognizable boundaries will at least be likely to defeat all comprehension."

Well, this is a really long essay, but it's pretty amazing that I read it though on Saturday night without being sleepy. I think I may add more sentences, or photos to this after I finish Troy's questions on Wednesday.

Results of Ink Experiments

Ok, this week we are going to do some computer work, the ink experiment ended by the weekend of last week. This week is a busy week again, so I don't have much time to upload other photos...

Hopefully I'll come back and finish this summarize of the first phase.

Site

From the reading "on site", by Carol J. Bruns

At present, site is frequently seen as a synchronic phenomenon, irrevocably divorced from other times...

Site has come to mark a particular conjunction where the temporal is eroded by the spatial and where history becomes the isolated image of its residue.

The principle of the master plan is to design the space of a terrain over an extended time; there must exist a similar, perhaps paradoxical potential for plotting the time of a terrain over space, which would differ from an architectural narrative or promenade by specifically accounting for growth and change in time...

The understanding of site is neither self-evident in looking at a particular example nor explicit in theoretical terms. Every site is a unique intersection of land, climate, production, and circulation. Peirce Lewis has stated that "most objects in the landscape-although they convey all kinds of 'message'-do not convey those messages in any obvious way."

Though the site is a product of culture, it is by nature not a finished or closed product. It is an artifact of human work that can neither be completed not abandoned. Its meaning can never be determinable. The site, like the human condition is open. This is the surplus of site, its indefinable excess.

Beginning

You should always try something new. So this time, I tried.

I've had two blogs with different theme, and of course, all Chinese based. I don't know whether I need to start to write English blog. I'll try, and maybe I'll get back to Chinese soon. If that happens, don't blame me, you know, I'm a Chinese, I love China and I love Chinese.

And then, about this blog's topic, I'm not quite sure. Maybe I'm going to make it casual ; but I really don't like to type every tiny thing of my life here; so maybe I'll steel do a literature one, I love to wright my feelings; or maybe, about Architecture, though these days I start to hate architecture and I'm not even sure whether I'm going to be an architect. So, all in all, this blog is going to be a nonsense one.

SO, you'd better see my other two:

http://firewoodwolf.spaces.live.com/
http://schaikovstation.spaces.live.com/

Ok, that's it for today.