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10 They open their mouths at me and strike my cheek in a taunt; they gang up on me. | 10 Men open their mouths to jeer at me; they strike my cheek in scorn and unite together against me. |
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"The third image shows the final rendering with the various tonal areas detailed. The rendering was produced with carbon pencil on a fairly smooth drawing board. As you can see he drew and erased as needed to get the needed effect."
Celebrate architecture and design for Archtober with students!
October, or "Archtober" as it is called, marks the 4th annual month-long festival of all things architecture and design in New York City.
Recommended reading to teach about architecture for students:
Dreaming Up: A Celebration of Building
The East-West House: Noguchi's Childhood in Japan
STEM + Literacy Activities:
1. Encourage students to examine the differences between architecture and engineering. How do these two fields depend on each other? What is unique about each field? What do architects contribute to building a structure? What do engineers contribute? For a simplified breakdown of the duties of an architect and an engineer, the New School of Architecture + Design has a clear infographic.
2. Have students in small teams research a well-known structure in their community, city, or state (such as a museum, performing arts center, or place of worship). Who built it and when? For what is the structured used? Where is it located? What is it made of? Why were those materials used? What is special about the design? What challenges did the architect have in creating this structure? In addition to online and print resources, students can interview someone who works at the structure, if possible. After research is complete, students can create a model of the structure, design a poster advertising it to tourists, or write and present a report on the structure to the class.
3. Ask students to imagine that they are architects assigned to design a new school. Describe the materials you will need and what the building will look like. As you think about the design and materials needed, consider the types of spaces children in the school will need to learn, read, eat, study; what you will need to make the building safe and sturdy; and what will make it an attractive place in which to learn.
4. Set up a hands on, or sensory, station with materials from home or a local hardware store that are used to build structures. Examples could be a wood spoon for wood, a cooking pot for steel, etc. Have students touch and record the characteristics of each sample material. Why might an architect use steel instead of wood, or bamboo instead of concrete? Students can make a chart of popular building materials to compare the advantages and disadvantages of each. Have students study the physical characteristics (based on sight, touch, sound, and even smell) of brick, wood, bamboo, clay, concrete, steel, glass, iron, rock, straw, recycled materials, and more. For advanced or older students, topics to compare include cost of the material, availability, resiliency in natural disasters, typical lifetime, flexibility and ability to shape the material, environmental friendliness, and beauty/appeal.
5. Have students study the roles that appeal/beauty, safety, and function/purpose play in the design of a structure. Is one preferable over the other? Why? Do these factors all work together or can they be in conflict with one another? Students can look at one specific structure to see how the architect addressed each of these issues. If possible, ask a local architect or professor from an area college to discuss these factors.
6. Watch PBS's "Building Big," a five-part miniseries on bridges, domes, skyscrapers, dams, and tunnels. Each one-hour program explores the different type of structures and what it takes to build them. An educator's guide of activities from PBS is available online.
7. Lead students in a step-by-step activity to create their own geodesic dome, sandcastle, toothpick structure, or floor plan. Instructions can be found online at the archKIDecture website.
Jill Eisenberg, our Resident Literacy Specialist, began her career teaching English as a Foreign Language to second through sixth graders in Yilan, Taiwan as a Fulbright Fellow. She went on to become a literacy teacher for third grade in San Jose, CA as a Teach for America corps member. She is certified in Project Glad instruction to promote English language acquisition and academic achievement. In her column she offers teaching and literacy tips for educators.
Here's a video that I made while painting a row of shopfronts in Huntington, Indiana. (Direct link to video)
It comes as a surprise to many people that landscapes can be designed. The assumption is that landscapes just happen; they emerge, by accident almost, from the countless activities and uses that occur on the land. But this ignores innumerable instances where people have intervened in landscape with aesthetic intent, where the landscape isn't just happenstance, but the outcome of considered planning and design. Frederick Law Olmsted and his partner Calvert Vaux coined a name for this activity in 1857 when they described themselves as 'landscape architects' on their winning competition entry for New York's Central Park; but 'landscape architecture' had been going on for centuries under different designations, including master-gardening', 'place-making', and 'landscape gardening'. To avoid anachronism, I'm going to call the entire field 'landscape design'. The 'top ten' designers that follow are those I think have been the most influential. These people have shaped your everyday world.
André Le Nôtre (1613 –1700). France's most famous gardener was employed by Louis XIV to create, at the palace of Versailles, the most extensive gardens in the Western world. Le Nôtre brought the Renaissance style, based upon symmetry and order, to its zenith. Versailles was copied, not only by the designers of other princely gardens, such as those at La Granja in Spain, the Peterhof near St. Petersburg or the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, but by city planners who appropriated its geometry of intersecting axes. The most surprising example is the influential plan for Washington D.C. produced in 1791 by the French engineer Pierre-Charles L'Enfant, who had grown up at Versailles.
Lancelot 'Capability' Brown (1716 –1783). Lancelot Brown is credited with changing the face of eighteenth century England. From humble origins, he become the most sought-after landscape designer in the country, undertaking over 250 commissions, including Temple Newsam in Yorkshire, Petworth in West Sussex and Compton Verney in Warwickshire. He swept away many formal gardens to create the naturalistic parkland which subsequently become an icon of Englishness. The style has been emulated worldwide: Munich has its Englischer Garten, while Stockholm has the Hagaparken and Paris the Parc Monceau.
Thomas Jefferson (1743 –1826) Yes, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and the third President of the United States was also a landscape designer. Not only did he lay out the grounds of his own property at Monticello in Charlottesville, Virginia as an ornamental farm, but he also created the influential masterplan for the campus of the University of Virginia. However, his greatest impact upon the American landscape, for better or worse, was his advocacy of the grid for the subdivision of territory and for rational town planning.
William Wordsworth (1770-1850). The poet might seem an unlikely selection, but Wordsworth designed several gardens, not just for his own houses, but also for those of friends. However, my principal reason for including him in this list is that he wrote the Guide to the Lakes, first published in 1810, which was notionally a travel guide, but was just as much a design guide, full of thoughtful advice about how to build – and when not to build – in a sensitive cultural landscape. Wordsworthian values were a significant influence upon the founders of the National Trust and continue to inform thinking about landscape conservation.
Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) Olmsted is often seen as the founding father of the landscape architecture profession. He thought that the creation of pastoral parks within teeming cities could counteract the adverse effects of industrialization and urbanization. In addition to Central Park, New York City, he was the designer of Prospect Park in Brooklyn and the system of linked parks in Boston known as the 'Emerald Necklace'. His plan for the residential community of Riverside, Illinois, became the template for innumerable suburbs, not all of the same quality. He was also prominent in the campaign to preserve scenic landscapes, such as the Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Big Tree Grove from development and commercial disfigurement.
Thomas Dolliver Church (1902-1978) When a style becomes ubiquitous, we sometimes forget that someone pioneered it. Church was a Californian designer who created elegantly functional 'outdoor rooms' for a sybaritic West Coast lifestyle. Those curvaceous, free form swimming pools that appear in American movies and TV shows from the 1950s onwards are Church's principal contribution to cultural history, but he was an important figure in the rise of Modernist landscape design in the mid twentieth century.
Ian McHarg (1920-2001) Scottish-born McHarg was teaching at the University of Pennsylvania when he wrote Design with Nature, published 1969, the most influential book ever written by a landscape architect. McHarg's thesis was that we should design our environment in harmony with natural forces, rather than in opposition to them. He pointed out the foolishness of such practices as building houses on floodplains. His advice seems ever more prescient as the world begins to cope with the consequences of climate change.
Peter Latz (1939 -) Landscape designers in many countries have been involved in the reclamation of derelict industrial sites. Latz's office recognized that reclamation does not need to mean the complete erasure of all history. Instead it can recognise the value of what remains. Most famously, Latz turned a rusting Ruhr valley steelworks into the Landschaftspark Duisburg Nord, where gardens flourish in former ore bunkers, rock-climbers practice on old concrete walls, and scuba-divers plunge into pools created within onetime gasholders. This approach to reclamation, which works with memory and aims to preserve as much of the existing site as possible, is rapidly becoming mainstream.
James Corner (1961 -) English-born Corner is now Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania and principal of the New York based practice, Field Operations. He is perhaps the world's most celebrated landscape architect, following the extraordinary success of the High Line project on Manhattan, which turned an abandoned railway viaduct into a linear park, visited by around four million people per year. Field Operations are also working on the Freshkills Landfill on Staten Island, transforming it into one of the world's biggest urban parks.
Kongjian Yu (1963-) Educated at Beijing Forestry University and Harvard Graduate School of Design, Professor Yu now heads the innovative Turenscape practice which has created many remarkable new landscapes in China, including the Zhongshan Shipyard Park, a reclamation project similar in philosophy to Landschaftspark Duisburg Nord. Turenscape makes use of vernacular features of the Chinese agricultural landscape, such as paddy fields and irrigation channels, to create striking new urban parks. Many of Yu's park designs, such as the Floating Garden at Yongning River Park, demonstrate an ecological approach to flood control.
Ian Thompson is a Chartered Landscape Architect and Reader in Landscape Architecture in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape at Newcastle University. He worked as a landscape architect from 1979 to 1992, mostly on work related to environmental improvement, derelict land reclamation and urban renewal, before taking up a lecturing post at Newcastle University. He is the author of many books including Landscape Architecture: A Very Short Introduction.
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Image credits: 1) By Michal Osmenda from Brussels, Belgium [CC-BY-2.0] via Wikimedia Commons 2) Graham Taylor [CC-BY-SA-2.0] via Wikimedia Commons 3) By Leslie S. Claytor [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons 4) By Boston Parks Department & Olmsted Architects (National Park Service Olmsted Archives) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons 5) By Martin Falbisoner (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 ] via Wikimedia Commons
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For those of you not familiar with the amazing work of Stephen Biesty, be sure to read my review ofInto the Unknown: How Great Explorers Found Their Way by Land, Sea and Air, written by Stewart Ross. Sadly, most of Biesty's cross section books are now out of print, but his work shines even brighter when he pairs with other authors, as in Into the Unknown, and now The Story of Buildings,
Power and memory combined to produce the Deccan Plateau's built landscape. Beyond the region's capital cities, such as Bijapur, Vijayanagara, or Golconda, the culture of smaller, fortified strongholds both on the plains and in the hills provides a fascinating insight into its history. These smaller centers saw very high levels of conflict between 1300 and 1600, especially during the turbulent sixteenth century when gunpowder technology had become widespread in the region. Below is a selection of images of architecture and monuments, examined through a mix of methodologies (history, art history, and archaeology), taken from our new book Power, Memory, and Architecture: Contested Sites on India's Deccan Plateau, 1300-1600.
Richard M. Eaton is Professor of History at the University of Arizona, Tucson. Phillip B. Wagoner is Professor of Art History at Wesleyan University. They are authors of Power, Memory, Architecture: Contested Sites on India's Deccan Plateau, 1300-1600.
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Everything in the natural world has structure – from the very small, like the carbon 60 molecule, to the very large such as mountains and indeed the whole Universe. Structure is the connecting of parts to make a whole – and it occurs at many different levels. Atoms have structure. Structures of atoms make molecules, structures of molecules make tissue and materials, structures of materials make organs and equipment and so on up a hierarchy of different levels as shown in the figure. Within this hierarchy of structure, man-made objects vary from the very small, like a silicon chip to the very large like a jumbo jet. Whereas natural structures have evolved over aeons, man-made structures have to be imagined, designed and built though our own efforts.
Many people, including much of the media, attribute this activity solely to architects. This is unfortunate because architects rely on engineers. Of course the responsibilities are close – it is a team effort. Architecture is the devising, designing, planning and supervising the making of something. Engineering is the turning of an idea into a reality – it is about conceiving, designing, constructing operating and eventually decommissioning something to fulfil a human need. The fact is that engineers play a critical creative role in making structural forms that function as required. They should be given at least equal credit.
Your personal structure is your bones and muscles – they give you form and shape and they function for you as well – for example bone marrow produces blood cells as well as lymphocytes to support your immune system. Your musculoskeletal system also includes all of your connecting tissue such as joints, ligaments and tendons which help you move around. On it are hung all of your other bits and pieces, such as your heart, brain, liver etc. Without structure you would just be a blob of jelly – structure supports who you are and how you function.
In a similar way the structure of a typical man-made structure, like a building, will have beams and columns together with all of the connecting material such as joints, slabs, welds and bolts which keep it together. On it are hung all of the other parts of the building such as the equipment for heating, lighting, communication and all of the furniture, fixtures and fittings. Without structure a building would just be a random pile of components – the function of structure is to support all the other functions of the building.
We can think of the form of a structure from two different points of view – I'll call them architectural and functional. If you were a building, then the architect would decide your gender, what you look like, your body shape and appearance. However the architect would not decide what is necessary to make the various parts of your body function as they should – that is the job of various kinds of engineer. In other words the architectural form concerns the sense and use of space, functional occupancy by people, symbolism and relationship to setting. It can be decorative and sculptural. The role of an architect is to understand and fulfil the needs of a client for the ways in which a building is to be used and how it will look – its overall form, appearance and aesthetic effect. But the architects who design buildings are not engineers and rarely have the level of scientific knowledge required of professionally qualified engineers. So for example structural engineers must design a structural form that has the function of making a building stand up safely. Indeed engineering safety dominates the design of large structures such as sky-scrapers, bridges, sports stadia, dams, off-shore platforms, fairground rides, ships and aeroplanes.
So what happens when the best architectural form and the best structural form are different – which takes precedence?
Safety and functionality are important necessary requirements – but of course they aren't sufficient. We need more than that and herein lies the issue. Functionality is often taken for granted, assumed and dismissed as not needing an artistic, creative input – requiring 'mere' technique and 'known' science. But that is a misreading of being innovative and creative – engineers often do breathtaking complex things that have never been done before. Scientific knowledge is necessary but not sufficient for inspirational engineering – many assumptions and assessments have to be made and there is no such thing as zero risk. Engineering requires practical wisdom.
Some argue that form should follow function – another way of saying that the ends determine the means. However the original meaning, by the American architect Louis Sullivan in 1896, was an expression of a natural law. He wrote 'Whether it be the sweeping eagle in his flight or the open apple-blossom, the toiling work horse … form ever follows function, and this is the law …'
The philosopher Ervin Laszlo pointed out the difference between form and function does not exist in natural structures. So nature shows us the way. Form and function should be in harmony. We should recognize that good architecture and good engineering are both an art requiring science – but aimed at different purposes. Their historical separation is unfortunate. If an architect specifies a structural form which (whether for artistic/aesthetic reasons or through incompetence) is unbuildable or unnecessarily expensive to build then the final outcome will be poor. The best and most successful projects are where the architects and engineers work together right from the start and given equal credit. At the most mundane level good structural design can leverage orders of magnitudes of savings in costs of construction.
Michel Virlogeux, the French structural engineer responsible for a number of big bridges including the Millau Viaduct in France, says that we design beautiful bridges when the flow of forces is logical. A good architect welcomes the engineering technical discipline to create form through structural art and intelligence and a good engineer welcomes architectural conceptual discipline to create form through aesthetic art and intelligence.
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Natsko Seki collages lively, saturated scenes of urban life from her own drawings and photographs. Begging to be explored, each illustration is populated with human activity and contains clues left by a moment in time that—if only yesterday—is now lost. Iconic architecture stands as a grandiose reminder that Seki's people are living in the shadows of history and are unknowing participants in the writing of their city's centuries. Seki's interest in architecture, fashion, and contemporary urban life has landed her commissions with Transport for London, Royal Historic Palaces, The Guardian, Bloomsbury, and Hermès. In 2013, Louis Vuitton published a book of Seki's London illustrations as part of their travel books collection. Seki grew up in Tokyo and studied illustration in Brighton, UK. She now lives in London.
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I need to tell a little story about the pictures in this blog's header, particularly the one on the right.
When I first selected it from a collection of pins on Pinterest marked "Libraries", I did not realise that each pinned picture in the collection corresponded to a whole article on the library in the picture.
Talking to someone the other day about this, I went back to my note in the sidebar to check where both shots came from and clicked right through to a brilliant article at Dezeen, an architecture and design blog now in its seventh year.
The article carries several more shots of the Liyuan library, designed by Li Xiadong. It was like opening a door.
Here is the outside of the library, on the outskirts of Beijing:
This next shot shows the rest of the library travelling back from the window shown in my header:
It is rather stunning. The whole library is covered on the outside with firewood, so that it blends in with the nearby village.
Read more at Dezeen: there's also a newer article on this library. Then, enjoy clicking through all their pins on Pinterest devoted to libraries to read other articles, or follow their library tag for some very attractive bookish spaces.
On Fridays, you may find many bloggers participating in STEM Friday or Poetry Friday.
The first-ever comprehensive exhibition of the landscape paintings of Martin Rico y Ortega (Spanish, 1833-1908) is currently on exhibition at the Meadows museum at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.
In the late-1930s, Walt Disney enlisted German architect and industrial designer Kem Weber to design a state-of-the-art animation studio from scratch. Weber oversaw every detail of the new Burbank studio from the exterior architecture of the buildings to the Streamline Moderne design of the furniture, desks, and appliances, to the custom typeface used on the studio's signage.
Yesterday, Hans Bacher posted a fantastic series of images I'd never seen before that show Weber's layouts of the different spaces in the Burbank studio. You can also see some of Weber's furniture at the Blue Sky Disney blog.
The Burbank studio wasn't the smashing success that Walt had envisioned, however. It felt cold and sterile to the artists who were accustomed to the cramped and comfortable charms of their old Hyperion digs. Animator Fred Moore complained to Ward Kimball one afternoon shortly after moving into the Burbank studio, "No distinction in the rooms."
But more than the lack of charm, the Burbank studio's ostentatious in-your-face luxuriousness suggested a certain tone deafness on Walt Disney's part. It rankled the hundreds of artists who were struggling to get by on $15-per-week salaries, and who now realized that the company cared more about its films than the well-being of its rank-and-file employees. It hardly mattered to the artists that Walt had had to borrow money from the banks to pay for the construction of the studio. Labor tensions began to escalate just months after artists moved into the studio, and within 18 months, the nasty Disney strike that threatened to destroy the entire studio had begun.
Walt had miscalculated the desires of his artists. He thought they wanted a state-of-the-art facility to create animated films. The average Depression-era artist, however, would have been happier with a few extra bucks per week so that he/she could afford food and housing. Managing the competing interests of studio owners and artists is still a struggle in today's animation industry, which is why the construction of Disney's Burbank studio remains an especially instructive moment in the art form's history.
Dreaming Up: A Celebration of Building by Christy Hale Lee & Low Books Inc., 2012 ISBN: 9781600606519 Grades K-4 The reviewed received a copy of the book from the publisher. The winners of the 2013 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards were announced recently. The nonfiction winner this year was Electric Ben. Two books were name nonfiction honor books: Dreaming Up: A Celebration of Building and Hand
Bunnicula was one of my favorite books from when I was eight. I got the opportunity to create my version for a theater poster.
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I've written about this book before:
"Round Buildings, Square Buildings, and Buildings that Wiggle Like a Fish by Philip M. Isaacson. Twelve years ago, this children's book was my introduction to the study of architecture. I've never looked at buildings the same way since.
"Isaacson takes the reader on a leisurely, respectful tour of buildings around the world: churches, houses, museums, lighthouses, all kinds of structures, from the humble to the magnificent. In simple, straightforward prose he discusses various architectural concepts such as the impact of building materials, the interplay of light and color, and the significance of roof shape. His stunning photographs turn even the roughest earthen hut into a work of art. His lyrical text helps us see in the pictures what we might otherwise have missed:
'These buildings are part of the Shaker Village at Sabbathday, Maine. On an afternoon in late winter they are warm and creamy, but in December, shadows thrown at them make them look haunted. A building only a few yards away fades into the land on a hazy morning.'"
—Originally posted March 11, 2006: "The Poetry of Walls."
Round Buildings, Square Buildings was edited by my first boss in publishing, the great Stephanie Spinner. It was near completion by the time I came on board; I don't think I did much more than look over galleys and jacket copy, and probably put through the request for Mr. Isaacson's author copies. It's one of those books I sat at my desk reading, unable to believe my good fortune: This is my job now; I'm getting paid to read.
Before Round Buildings I hadn't done much real seeing of architecture. There were buildings I loved: the sandstone administration building (formerly a convent) of my first college, Loretto Heights, with its red tower soft-edged against a blue sky, and inside, a gorgeous mosaic floor—tiny tiles set into place by wagon-training nuns, so the story went. But even there, I was drawn more to story than to form. Most of the buildings that captured my imagination, pre-Isaacson, lived in books: Green Gables, the House o' Dreams, Jane's Lantern Hill house with its "lashings of magic." The Muskoka cabin. (No one does houses better than Montgomery.) Plumfield. Juniper's cottage. Miss Suzy's tree-house with its acorn cups. Vicky Austin's grandfather's house-in-a-converted-stable with the stalls full of books. A great many English houses in a great many English novels.
But most of the time, my eye was drawn more to nature than to man's edifices. I had next to no vocabulary for understanding architecture. Isaacson changed that in a paragraph with his description of the creamy walls of the Taj Mahal changing colors as the sun moved across them—the very passage I read with Beanie and Rose this morning. He writes about harmony and you find yourself looking for it everywhere you go. He made me see my world differently—just as John Stilgoe's Outside Lies Magic changed how I looked at just about everything else: power lines, rain gutters, a sculpture garden, the line at the DMV. The way Betty Edwards's Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain changed the way I see faces.
Clicking through these old posts, I see I've made a connection between these three books before. They're transformative, all three.
Funny also to see in the old Stilgoe post I linked above, "Way Leads on to Way," that I'd been reading Fifty Famous Stories Retold* to Beanie that year—in March, 2008, when she was seven years old. And now here's Rilla seven, and I'm reading it to her. (Today's tale: Androclus and the Lion. It drew cheers, and a narration with gusto. Because LION.) I have to laugh: way doesn't just lead on to way; sometimes it leads right back full circle. I didn't choose Round Buildings for the older girls and Fifty Famous Stories for the seven-year-old at the same time—again—on purpose; I guess it's just that I've been doing this long enough now that I know what works for us, and these things have worked time and again. It did strike me this morning, reading the Isaacson, that the Stilgoe might be a satisfying read for Jane and Rose right about now.
**Also wonderful: Isaacson's sequel, A Short Walk Around the Pyramids and Through the World of Art
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So, in my last post I showed you some food from our trip to Oaxaca, and here I wanted to show you a little of the town and surroundings. Excuse me if I'm a little picture happy. It was hard to choose.
Above is a street in Oaxaca, to give you an idea of the town. This street happens to be a pedestrian only zone, though I guess bench-sitters get a pass, too. Hey, if I could sit on a comfy pink bench on this street right now, I would.
Below is the Santo Domingo church. Georgeous. Love the landscaping out front, too.
And I've fallen hard for the church's stone walls. The subtle color variations (and size variations, which you can see less well) are making me so, so happy. I think I'm going to have to use that colorway and grid pattern somewhere.
Up next, a convent-turned-hotel. The walls are literally three feet thick. It's a total dream. I have a thing for thick walls and courtyard gardens.
Here and there, on the former convent walls, you'll see little bits of painting:
And lastly, just outside Oaxaca are the pyramids of Monte Alban. From the top, the view of the area is breathtaking.
I'd love to show you some of the handicrafts Oaxaca is famous for, but I think I'll have to show you after Christmas, since several that I bought are gifts for others.
Up next, hopefully I'll have time to post a few Christmas-themed items. I've been trying to be really nose-to-the-grindstone on my writing projects. Back to work for me! Be well.
A week or so ago I rubbed shoulders with some of Kids' Lit most illuminating talents at the Book Links' QLD (The Centre for Children's Literature) third Romancing the Stars event. The objective of these evenings is to meet and listen to as many authors and illustrators wax lyrical about their latest publication as possible in a frenzy of succinct deliveries and rotations – rather like speed dating, but with books and ultimately more satisfying.
Amongst them was, rising star, Andrew King. I first met Andrew and Engibear, both instantly likeable fellows, last year when Andrew and I were amongst the 'daters'. I confess the first time I laid eyes on his non-typical picture book, I baulked at the complexity of its design and presentation. Perhaps it is the poor mathematician in me, but there seemed too many labels and numbers and graph grids! The detail overwhelmed me and the thought, 'too much' flickered through my mind like an wavering light bulb.
But Andrew's compelling fervour for his work convinced me to look more closely. So I did, and fell in love with what I saw. Engibear's Dream is neither too busy nor over-detailed, but rather a masterfully thought out and delivered tale of simplicity and perseverance. Engibear's life is too full to pursue both his dreams and work. He needs help and being a clever engineer like his creator, sets out to design a Bearbot to help him achieve more. But grand schemes are rarely realised first time round. It takes Engibear several attempts to 'get it right' but he never gives up on himself or his Bearbot.
More than just a cute rhyming counting book about the rigours of planning and design, Engibear's Dream covers the themes of sustainable living, finding balance in a world of progress and change and being innovative and tenacious in the face of failure. Mighty issues for small minds, but ones they will assimilate as they follow Engibear's attempts to succeed, all superbly illustrated both schematically and in explosive colour, by qualified architect Benjamin Johnston.
I needed to find out more about the man behind the bear, behind the robot. So this week I have a bona fide, qualified engineer behind the draft table. Here's what he had to say…
Q Who is Dr Andrew King? How would you best describe present self?
A 48 year old mixed bag: self, husband, dad, son, brother, relative, friend, engineer, co-worker, band member, aspiring author, committee member, community member, etc…
Fortunately, from my perspective, I have been very lucky and the mix has been good to me – I am trying to be good back.
Q Describe your 10 year old self. Did you have any concept then of what you wanted to do or be when you grew up? If so, what?
A 10 year old mixed bag – just a bit less in the mix – son, brother, relative, friend, school student, footballer, etc…
Fortunately (again) I had a very pleasant and carefree childhood. So carefree that I don't think I had any real idea of what I wanted to do when I grew up. Interestingly though, I remember that a friend and I were writing and illustrating small books of jokes back in grade 6 and trying to sell them (for about 2 cents each). It has been more than 30 years since I last tried but I am now trying to write and sell books again.
Q Writing for children is not your first chosen occupation. Why take up the challenge now?
Kelly and I have been writing and drawing with our kids for years. We ended up developing characters like Engibear and the Bearbot and writing about their adventures in Munnagong. A few years ago my daughter, Marie-Louise, suggested that we should write a book.
Q Engibear's Dream is your first picture book for children. What are you trying to impart with this book and why choose the picture book format?
The book started as a way of making engineering more accessible to young children. However, we wanted to make the book something more than an instruction manual. Therefore, we included a storyline (in this case a story about perseverance) and tried to include humour. We have also added numbers so that it can be used as a counting book.
To me drawing is a very powerful communication tool. The combination of words and pictures used in engineering drawings is a particularly useful way to communicate design ideas. The opportunity to include these types of diagrams and images of Engibear and the Bearbot meant that the book had to include pictures.
Q What sets Engibear's Dream apart from other picture books currently on the shelves?
Engineering – in two ways.
Firstly, having a character that is an engineer, there are very few engineers in children's literature. To me this is surprising as children seem to be very interested in the things that engineers do. Engibear provides a "friendly face" of engineering and therefore a way to introduce engineering to young children at the right level.
Secondly, including detailed engineering drawings. Ben Johnston is an architect who is used to working with engineers. Ben has created loveable characters and has also been able to contrast them with fantastically detailed design drawings of Munnagong, Engibear's house and workshop, the Bearbot and its working parts. I think this combination of drawing styles allows children to enjoy the characters and the story and then also spend time thinking about how things work and making things (engineering).
Q How long from conception to publication did it take to realise Engibear's Dream?
Building Bearbot was an early family story that is about 10 years old and was the basis for Engibear's Dream. It sat in the cupboard for a long time. However, once we decided to write a book and chose this story it took about three years to get to publication.
Q It takes Engibear up to 10 types from prototype to final version before he engineers the perfect Bearbot. Does it take engineer Andrew the same number of attempts to design something new before getting it right?
If it is a book, yes – easily!
Depending on the complexity of the project I think engineering design can also take a lot of work. However, engineers have developed systems such as standards, computer modelling and design reviews to help make the design process robust.
Q Engibear's dream is to have a life less strenuous with more time for enjoying the simple pleasures. What's the one thing on your non-writing wish-list you'd like to tick off /achieve / produce?
I would like to read more fiction.
Q Do you have other writing dreams you'd like to fulfil?
I have a series of Engibear books planned. Munnagong is a busy place; there is a lot of engineering going on and a lot to write about.
Q Engibear is written in quatrain rhyming verse. As a first time author, did you find this difficult to pull off? Why did you choose to tell the story in this way?
We wrote the book in quatrain rhyming verse because this is how we made up verses when my children were younger – it just seemed to be a natural way to rhyme. However, while this worked for family stories, it was very difficult to do it properly. As an engineer I have some technical writing skills but I had to learn a lot about writing verse. Therefore, I did a course with Dr Virginia Lowe at Create a Kids Book and Virginia then mentored me.
Q You chose to publish your book via a partnership publishing company (Little Steps Publishing). Why? What other publication avenues did you explore if any?
I did contact some traditional publishers and received very polite rejections. I thought that rather than keep going down that route it would be better just to get on with it – self publishing seemed to be the answer.
Q What is on the design board for Andrew? What's your next 'writing' project?
We have been making models of the characters in Engibear's Dream and we have created a rsk based engineering game. I am also working on the next planned Engibear book "Engibear's Bridge". This book is about construction of an iconic "green bridge" near Munnagong State School which will be opened as part of the Munnagong Festival.
Brilliant Andrew! You know I can't wait to meet your new characters and see their designs.
Like the most enthralling kids' movies, Engibear's story doesn't just end with a 'happily ever after' moment. Keep page turning and be fascinated by full page project drawings of BBT-10, the Final Version, resplendent with some side-splitting specifications. My young miss could not go past the line drawn end pages detailing Munnagong, home of Engibear either. A fascinating read.
Designed for 3 – 8 year olds. Also riveting for boys, those with inquisitive minds, budding designers and anyone who likes to dream big.
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We were thrilled to see the announcement this week that architect Shigeru Ban has won the Pritzker Architecture Prize, one of architecture's most important awards. Ban is notable not only for his inspired and gorgeous designs but for his humanitarian work using innovative architecture and renewable resources to help refugees and those affected by both man-made and natural disasters. Take a look at his paper tube school in China, featured in our book Dreaming Up:
Teachers and students helped construct this temporary school out of plywood and recycled heavy-duty paper tubes after an earthquake destroyed many buildings in China's Sichuan Province. Dreaming Up author and illustrator Christy Hale shares why she chose to include Shigeru Ban's work in her book:
In selecting the architects and structures featured in Dreaming Up: A Celebration of Building I began by considering children's building play. What materials do they use? Children do not need prepackaged toys; they can build from whatever is at hand. In fact using recyclables encourages two qualities enormously important in creativity: resourcefulness and flexibility—essential for the problem-solvers of tomorrow. After developing my list of children's construction activities, I then looked for architects working with visually similar materials and design challenges. This is how I made my pairings.
The new Pritzker Architecture Prize-winner, Shigeru Ban said, "Anything can be building structure material." Ban creates elegant designs from humble materials. He is famous for upcycling industrial strength paper tubes, shipping containers, and even tea bags!
I thought my young readers would particularly like his Paper Tube School in Chengdu, a temporary school built in 2008 with the help of teachers and students after an earthquake destroyed many buildings in China's Sichuan Province. I also wanted to showcase Ban for his humanitarian work. His architecture efficiently serves the pressing needs of disaster victims while simultaneously honoring them with beauty.
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Dirk Nowitzki is no longer unemployed. Deal with Mavs is officially done. Per @ESPNSteinLine, it's actually $25M over 3 years (Monta $).
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I mean wow! He is making peanuts compared to what he should be making..
Dirk Nowitzki is no longer unemployed. Deal with Mavs is officially done. Per @ESPNSteinLine, it's actually $25M over 3 years (Monta $).
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Great signing! Way to go dirk!
Yeah, 8ish a year is pretty solid. Still, he'll be 36, 37 and 38 years-old during this contract. There's gonna be some eventual regression. Without a doubt he'll be worth way more than $8M this next year, but only time will tell about 37 and 38. It's certainly likely to still be a bargain. But there is some risk here, for sure. Not a ton, but some.
Pretty similar to the Duncan contract he signed at a nearly identical age. 3 years, 30 million.
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I really hope there is a lockout next time around and the players stand their ground. Owners should not be rewarded for this garbage.
I am shocked that Dirk Nowitzki would take this little. One of the few players who actually cares about team success more than about money. Then again, I guess it's easier to not care so much about money when you've made over a hundred million dollars with the Mavericks.
In the other thread, people were saying how Wade is the most loyal guy in the NBA... I think Dirk Nowitzki and Tim Duncan, with the slight edge going to Dirk. Not only is he taking less money, but to my knowledge, Dirk has never even courted/visited other teams during FA (Duncan has with Orlando in the past).
Dirk and Duncan are 2 of my favorite players, and even though I can never be loyal to a team (only fans of their players), how do you not love/respect his sacrifice?
Wouldn't be surprised if Cuban was "making it worth his while" via other means.
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Hi all, first time posting here! I've got hooked to these cool plants, and the design ideas of hanging terrariums are just wonderful. I would love to hear from some experts here. Right now I have my tilandsias "planted" in terrariums with pebbles/small rocks as bedding. Is that going to be okay? And regarding watering, I've seen some people say soaking is good, and some say that it's not and only misting is needed. I have my terrariums hung in a room close to a window, however it's mostly pretty dry here, so would misting be enough?? I'll try to get some photos tomorrow. |
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I see. Thank you! I see lots of varieties of dunking/soaking schedules. Some say soak it twice a month, each time 8-12 hours; some say soak it 2-4 times a week, each time 30min - 1 hr. I'm not sure which one would fit my situation the best (growing indoor in apartment with central air-conditioner, hanging terrarium with holes, 3-4 feet at most from the window). |
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I personally don't have any Tillandsia that require soaking but I live in a very humid climate and rarely do I need to do anything but mist a free plants like funckiana or the ball grown clumps. I don't have any tillandsia that grow in soil yet... |
Here are some pictures. They just had their initial soaking, since most of them looked quite sad and had browning tips, I soaked them overnight last night with lukewarm filtered water, let them dry this morning before placing them back to their homes. |
I see now, you're working with the little glass orbs. I was thinking of a traditional aquarium style terrarium earlier. I wouldn't worry just yet, those all seem fine. The brown tips on the thin-leafed tillandsias are almost unavoidable when growing indoors. Unless it's super humid in your area and you're not running heating/ac the great indoors tends to be on the arid side. Your plants can still carry on in good health, but you'll probably always have some crispy tips. If they really bug you you can always clip them off. Dunking, misting, how often, etc. I think this get's over complicated. Just keep a close eye on them until you get a routine down. As they get "thirsty" the leaves start curling laterally. You can really notice it in the caput-medusae; it's leaves can curl so completely that it hides the surface of the leaf completely. Just be careful not to over-water, death by rot is a lot more common than dessication. |
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Okay, thanks guys! They seemed happier after the soaking. And I'll do my best to keep them that way. I'm probably going to mist them every other day in the terrarium because of the central AC here. |
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The sixth book in Peter Deneff's popular Hanon series, Jazz Chord Hanon provides 70 essential exercises in a variety of styles to benefit beginning to professional jazz keyboardist, all based on the requisite Hanon studies. The exercises address: comping, major and minor progressions, chromatic and diatonic workouts, altered chords, progressively complex voicings, the Circle of Fifths, and more. Doing these exercises is guaranteed to build fluency in all twelve keys! Includes suggested fingerings and practice tips.
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[Xinhua: "Colombian President, Chinese Defence Minister Hold Talks on
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BOGOTA, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) - Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and
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vowing to make joint efforts to boost bilateral military ties.
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i'm getting some new chickens this weekend and to be frank i don't know anything when it comes too chickens and would like to know what anyone has to say on the subject.
i already have housing prepared for the chickens, feed, water, nesting, roosting (but i might have to make a bigger roost), and bedding but i'm afraid that theres something that i'm not factoring in. |
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Are they day-old baby chicks? If you so will sit the first 24 hours and stare at their antics, lol. Then make sure each one is eating and drinking. Keep them warm til they get feathered out. |
- Posted by marlingardener 8b (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Sat, Mar 13, 10 at 14:35
Dan, If you can answer a few questions, I may be able to help you. Are they chicks, "teen-agers" or full-grown chickens? What feed do you have? Are you raising the chickens for food or for eggs? Is the housing secure from predators or just a cardboard box? What bedding are you using? All these things vary according to the age of the chickens you are receiving. Raising chickens is a lot of fun, and believe me, the eggs are nothing like the ones you get at the grocery! |
- Posted by velvet_sparrow z10 So. Calif. (My Page) on Sat, Mar 13, 10 at 17:34
You don't say if you are getting adults, chicks or somewhere in between, it would help us if you would let us know. Chickens are great, but you do need to educate yourself about them a bit, especially to avoid the mistakes others have made. I've got a chicken info site here that might be a good place to start: http://jackshenhouse.com/ Enjoy your chickens! Velvet !:> |
- Posted by woodrose711 (My Page) on Sat, Mar 13, 10 at 21:48
Yes, we need specific questions, how old are your chix, how many, where are you keeping them, etc. That would be a good place to start. Above all else, enjoy them! |
the birds are 1 week old there all eating and drinking they are in a (poorly constructed) brooder there is a heat source but i'm afraid it is just a bit to cold (85-91 Fahrenheit the heat changes to rapidly ) and i will be getting a new bulb i will be using the birds for eggs when they are older and there breeds are (if this even mater) Dominican, Ameraucana, and sex links |
- Posted by marlingardener 8b (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Sun, Mar 14, 10 at 9:33
Dan, If they are eating well, you must have them on starter mix--good for you! The feed bag has information on the back that will tell you when to switch to layer mix (at about 17 weeks, as I remember). The bedding shouldn't be slick, like newspaper. I used shredded paper and it worked well, plus its compostable. Pine shavings are good, too. You will need to change the bedding almost daily, and the water perhaps twice a day. Chicks are notoriously messy (and they don't get much better with age, either!). If you are worried about the temperature in the brooder, you can put a light blanket or sheet over part of it. That way the chicks can move to a warmer or slightly cooler spot as they want. Your chicks won't be nesting or roosting for a while, so you can relax on that score. Follow any advice Velvet gives--she really knows poultry! Wait until you get your first "real" egg--the taste is incomparable! |
does anyone know if Ameraucana go broody? cause when these chicks grow up id like for them to also have chicks of there own eventually. |
- Posted by marlingardener 8b (email@example.com) on Mon, Mar 15, 10 at 14:58
From what I gather from a quick search on several websites, the Ameraucanas are a fun breed, good laying hens, but don't go broody too well. If you want natural-born mothers that will set on anything from a golf ball to another hen's eggs, get Australorps. I found one of my ladies sitting on a stone and she was very protective of it! |
thanks marlin ill get one to stay with my other chickens when there all grown. :) |
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