Going to John Johansen Lecture at PAAM tonight

The Restless Creative Spirit: the Life and Work of John M. Johansen
Tuesday, July 27, 7pm
In conjunction with the exhibition Gathering: Art about Architects at PAAM (June 25-August 29, 2010)
John M. Johansen was born in New York City in 1916, studied architecture at Harvard University under Walter Gropius, and went on to become one of the preeminent American architects of the modern era. Now retired from practice and a resident of Wellfleet, MA, he has devoted himself to the development of a visionary architecture based on scientific discovery. His far-reaching creative practice includes painting, printmaking, sculpture, jewelry design, and songwriting. He has also written a number of books, includingJohn M. Johansen: A Life on the Continuum of Modern Architecture and Nanoarchitecture: A New Species of Architecture.
In his lecture, Johansen will discuss the major buildings of his Modern Movement period, and present his experimental concepts in illustrating advancing building technologies. Johansen will also show video of his animated buildings – structures that will actually grow in the next century. Signed copies of his DVD will be available for purchase.
http://archiseek.com/2010/1964-united-states-embassy-northumberland-road-dublin/

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.