tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62498608789081863462024-03-12T23:57:28.614-04:00gang greenSusanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13118150403635212959noreply@blogger.comBlogger82125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6249860878908186346.post-62503999237111878382010-09-22T10:37:00.004-04:002010-09-22T10:42:54.512-04:00It's Car Free Day again!Well, bless me readers, for it has been two months since my last post. Is there is penance to be done in the blogosphere for such a prolonged silence? Extra postings? I promise to amend my ways…But today we celebrate! It’s Car Free Day again, so I’m sending my wishes for a wonderful holiday. What? It’s not a holiday? That would explain the traffic.I’m celebrating, as I always do and as I Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13118150403635212959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6249860878908186346.post-77281235790444135152010-07-27T16:52:00.010-04:002010-07-27T17:00:31.129-04:00reflecting on coal carsI was standing on the platform at King Street Metro Station, in that state of mental detachment and disattenuation familiar to transit users, when a freight train rumbled by on the neighboring tracks. Boxcars gave way to open top coal cars, one after another after another after another after another, headed south. It was one of those recently Hades-hot days in Washington, when the grid is Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13118150403635212959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6249860878908186346.post-79498144117780439122010-07-07T14:10:00.002-04:002010-07-07T14:15:55.408-04:00Close the Door...one more time<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13118150403635212959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6249860878908186346.post-25714768736901524202010-06-30T14:02:00.011-04:002010-06-30T14:23:06.974-04:005 Points for a Sustainable Urban ArchitectureContinuing on my Cobusier riff, the post here is a summary of my presentation at DCWeekThere’s a long tradition of manifestos in modern architecture, of calls to arms to rally round some ideology of one sort or another. (There’s a great anthology of them, Programs and Manifestos on 20th Century Architecture by Ulrich Conrads.) Le Corbusier’s 5 Points made a particularly pithy manifesto. Easy Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13118150403635212959noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6249860878908186346.post-83398983859848094702010-06-17T14:15:00.011-04:002010-06-17T14:43:01.418-04:00Architecture or Revolution<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13118150403635212959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6249860878908186346.post-14387494477229691652010-06-15T13:38:00.006-04:002010-06-17T14:38:24.144-04:00Digital Capital WeekAfter my experience at SIGGRAPH last summer, I have gotten more accustomed to techie conferences. Later this week, Friday in fact, I'll be part of a panel at Digital Capital Week talking about--what else?--the green urban future. The moderator told us we each get 10 minutes. 10 minutes? It takes longer than that to say my name! So, with not enough time really to develop a thesis, I think I'm Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13118150403635212959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6249860878908186346.post-82014899887980445182010-06-07T10:59:00.002-04:002010-06-07T11:06:27.446-04:00A Camel designed by committee is a camel<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13118150403635212959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6249860878908186346.post-49246625243972504912010-06-04T11:06:00.005-04:002010-06-04T11:14:50.713-04:00On another Matter...Matter Practice, that is, and mgmt, the exhibition and graphic designers respectively for Green Community have just received an Honor Award for their work on the exhibition from the Society of Environmental and Graphic Design. With our media designers, Potion, having won a gold MUSE award previously, that makes two awards that Green Community has won. Congratulations to our stellar team!Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13118150403635212959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6249860878908186346.post-63794840700229150262010-05-27T16:09:00.007-04:002010-06-04T11:14:07.176-04:00Oil and Water<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13118150403635212959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6249860878908186346.post-63200381520538763442010-05-14T16:34:00.002-04:002010-05-14T16:40:01.653-04:00gang green takes a holidayThe semester has ended. The Solar Decathlon 2011 Finalists exhibition is open. so, I'm off to Portland to participate in a Sustainability Symposium at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry.See you in the future... Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13118150403635212959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6249860878908186346.post-47222399610905677822010-04-29T12:26:00.005-04:002010-04-29T19:47:21.958-04:00More thoughts on the green, the good, and the uglyI think I need to keep going with last week’s post and my quote from Michael Braungart that there is no green architecture, only good or bad architecture. It’s an attention-getting quip, which as Eco Man Rob Fleming points out is “good yes, but problematic in that I know it’s very difficult to make good architecture under any circumstances. I don't like such a binary distinction. But I need to Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13118150403635212959noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6249860878908186346.post-18100137417550223972010-04-23T13:32:00.004-04:002010-04-23T13:39:09.066-04:00there is no green architecture...<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13118150403635212959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6249860878908186346.post-13696864884326848072010-04-15T14:55:00.004-04:002010-04-15T15:05:52.501-04:00Solar Decathlon 2011!Although I should be writing about my experience at the APA convention in New Orleans this past weekend--which included attending epic session with Dr. John, Irma Thomas and hosted by Nick Spitzer-- I'm up to my eyeballs in Solar Decathlon stuff. As one of the winners of the Museum's annual Honor Awards, the Decathlon is getting the star treatment on our website and then in a special exhibition Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13118150403635212959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6249860878908186346.post-22241954845422131062010-04-08T16:47:00.003-04:002010-04-08T16:53:32.777-04:00White StripesTook Metro to work, got a SmartBike at lunch to ride across town for lunch, and tonight I’m heading to the Zipster happy hour in the West End...although I will not be actually getting a Zip car. That’s a transit trifecta! And I haven’t even mentioned my shoes, those stalwart mid-height spectator sling-backs in café au lait with black patent leather toe, purchased years ago at Carbon One...I Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13118150403635212959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6249860878908186346.post-36296230651204523992010-04-01T14:42:00.001-04:002010-04-01T14:45:51.167-04:00Surplus of Value<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13118150403635212959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6249860878908186346.post-17353600437957394442010-03-16T14:17:00.002-04:002010-03-16T14:23:27.436-04:00Kudos Solar Decathlon!<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13118150403635212959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6249860878908186346.post-29490372145970500642010-03-08T13:54:00.001-05:002010-03-08T13:56:29.410-05:00the snow did it....It’s the snow’s fault. Everything’s the snow’s fault: all errors, omissions, backsliding, procrastinating, overeating, bad hair, and bad tempers. I’m blaming it all on the snow until the last crunchy crystals sublime and leave nothing but black smudges behind. I guess the fact that few heaps still remain is livin’ proof that global warming is a hoax, because if it were real the snow would Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13118150403635212959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6249860878908186346.post-71939286367688918342010-02-18T16:35:00.004-05:002010-02-18T16:42:20.810-05:00This will kill that...<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13118150403635212959noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6249860878908186346.post-39151179887986906502010-02-05T11:26:00.001-05:002010-02-05T11:31:57.799-05:00SempiternityI’m a subway situationalist, choosing my colors depending on the circumstances: a delay on Red, and I walk all the way from home to Foggy Bottom to take Blue to Alexandria; train too crowded for comfort, I’ll hop off my home-bound Red at Farragut North and walk north up Connecticut. Sometimes I’ll skip the quick plunge from the Building Museum to Judiciary Square and walk to Gallery Place, justSusanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13118150403635212959noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6249860878908186346.post-9293192935288638892010-01-28T15:24:00.002-05:002010-02-04T15:01:06.895-05:00More Glass Room<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13118150403635212959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6249860878908186346.post-91879796228607364472010-01-21T17:03:00.006-05:002010-01-21T17:27:30.439-05:00I’m a bag lady. I have bags stashed all over my house. The former shopping bag are in a cabinet under the kitchen counter: the innumerable Peapod bags (see my post on that one from last year) wadded up and awaiting re-purposing as garbage bags; an obscurely hip black paper bag with “See Artists” stenciled across it from the artists’ opening in London last summer, now empty of its weird Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13118150403635212959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6249860878908186346.post-82141990521732784212010-01-14T10:25:00.003-05:002010-01-14T16:45:44.918-05:00Failure to Communicate, part 2<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13118150403635212959noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6249860878908186346.post-10375709051858811272010-01-07T11:27:00.004-05:002010-01-14T16:46:50.279-05:00What we have here is a failure to communicate...It may be an urban legend, or at least an architectural legend: Architect presents a design for a new house to client with a cool and convincing perspective rendering showing what the house will look like. House gets built and client calls architect threatening a lawsuit. Why? The Mercedes pictured in the curving drive has not been delivered yet. Ha ha. This is clearly a boom-time story, andSusanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13118150403635212959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6249860878908186346.post-57047246178728979052009-12-31T12:44:00.003-05:002009-12-31T12:50:44.214-05:00Never put off until tomorrow...I know I said in my last post that I’d be back in 2010, and it’s still technically 2009, but among my new year’s resolutions—along with be more p a t i e n t—is quit procrastinating. Working right up to a deadline is a habit I’ve refined to perfection, but it is a bad habit nonetheless. So, here’s my inaugural post for 2010, early.Resolutions are odd things, a grab bag of idle wishes, Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13118150403635212959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6249860878908186346.post-11930344957969856132009-12-08T12:05:00.002-05:002009-12-31T12:54:20.498-05:00Never can say good-bye…no, no, no, I never can say good-bye<!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13118150403635212959noreply@blogger.com0