Defining Stucco

As taken from nps.gov's Preservation Brief on Stucco:

Stucco has been used since ancient times. Still widely used throughout the world, it is one of the most common of traditional building materials. Up until the late 1800's, stucco, like mortar, was primarily lime-based, but the popularization of portland cement changed the composition of stucco, as well as mortar, to a harder material. Historically, the term "plaster" has often been interchangeable with "stucco"; the term is still favored by many, particularly when referring to the traditional lime-based coating. By the nineteenth century "stucco," although originally denoting fine interior ornamental plasterwork, had gained wide acceptance in the United States to describe exterior plastering. "Render" and "rendering" are also terms used to describe stucco, especially in Great Britain. Other historic treatments and coatings related to stucco in that they consist at least in part of a similarly plastic or malleable material include: parging and pargeting, wattle and daub, "cob" or chalk mud, pise de terre, rammed earth, briquete entre poteaux or bousillage, half-timbering, and adobe. All of these are regional variations on traditional mixtures of mud, clay, lime, chalk, cement, gravel or straw. Many are still used today.

More info below

http://www.nps.gov/hps/tps/briefs/brief22.htm#Historical%20Background

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Doric Glossary on architecture

http://www.doric-column.com/glossary_classical_architecture.html

This is a great source that dont want to lose and need to access no matter what computer

I am on.

http://www.doric-column.com/glossary_classical_architecture.html

Saugus Iron works, Technology for building

Visit the Saugus Iron works it is a reproduction of the first Iron works in the US.

http://www.nps.gov/sair/index.htm

I would like to go to the location, take pics and explain the workings and the technical impact on architecture in US.

Frank Lloyd Wright in NH

http://architecture.about.com/od/museumstravel/qt/newhampshire.htm

Found a FLW in NH Id like to go there soon. I didnt want to lose the information so this is just the next few things Id like to get down and visit.

Google Talk today

At work today a guy who attended Googles IO 2010 gave an overview of the info. It was very good and he had lots of files. Here is the link from Google on the talk about Chrome and HTML 5. I am going to post more later.

http://code.google.com/events/io/2010/sessions/developing-with-html5.html

On July 12th Im starting my first course on American Architecture. Its going to be great. I have had the text book for months now so this is going to be great. I'll be putting up the new information as I get it. Later this month maybe I will be going back to MIT and visiting the Stata Building.

Dali Museum

Visited the Dali museum in St Peterburg FLA last week. It was a quick visit but when I got there I realized that the collection is on one person and therefore an hour visit is just about right. Actually getting there was the excitement. I had been on business in Tampa and just had enough time to swing over in the afternoon for a quick visit to St Pete before jumping on the plane home to Boston.

I found the sketches from his early life to be amazing. My friend mentioned something that stuck in my mind for days and now a week later. He sketched and painted like he was creating a full animation. I didnt take the narrated tour but instead viewed from the end to the beginning. His beginnings were very basic for an artists. Landscapes and portraits. He painted and sketched his own life. Later in his life he would do more intense compositions that were very deep and confusing. Although the man narrating seemed to have some insight on his life when I heard them talk, I see a man that had a strong wife that was part of his work and 2 best friends that also particiapted in his work and his life. I was almost jealous. I wanted relationships like that but are not even close.

There were design pieces such as telephones, sculpture, dishes, forks and then 6 magnificent storytelling murals that needed a special room to show them. It was amazing. I was very impressed but also this gave some insight to how this man worked and thought. In the future I will give him more focus and I am now interested in who he was.

It was worth the trip to see the museum and the area. Actually I took the wrong exit off the highway and saw more than I bargained. The area is nice but then it was not so nice.

I cant tell. Im looking forward to reading more about this art figure.