A 1967 house in Dallas can be replaced with another one; an 1867 house in New Orleans can't. |
Didn't you say that you have to be consistent? Well how come you didn't show up at the movies, he didn't show up at crazy wisdom and how come every time you're in the school of architecture-I just can't get in? |
Dude, I'm not sure if this U of M situation thing is going to work out. See, I still haven't heard from the school. Listen Reed, you so need to get me a job if it doesn't work out. I am a writer and am known for excellent architectural research and you better hook me up with a fabulous job somewhere. Also, it's been almost ten days since I filed for divorce and no one has shown interest in me. I think I need to hook up with the Germans. For some reason, the Germans really like me alot. Let's see there was Mattias, the German intern over at the firm that I worked for who liked me alot and then there was my German roof tile supplier in Singapore who kept giving me free VIP passes to all those events and then of course there is my neverending love affair with Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe whose autobiography by Peter Blake contains one of the most erotic sketches in the whole wide world. These Germans I tell you. They have this thing for me. I must look like the Bauhaus. |
Gatherings like this allow us to begin to look at the whole range, from individual buildings, to larger symbolic buildings, to the landscape itself. |
I don't know what's left. Maybe part of it is there and part of it isn't. |
I miss Juan and Peter. Now that I'm back there are no more Juan's and Peter's. I shouldn't have left for Singapore. Now that I'm back, I've lost them again. I miss being in the classroom. When is Juan going to turn into reed? |
New Orleans - along with San Francisco - is the greatest collection of 18th-, 19th- and early-20th-century residential architecture in the United States. You're talking about miles and miles of historic properties. But saving the historic context does not mean necessarily rebuilding everything in it. I don't think you build a bad 21st-century copy of a brilliant 19th-century building. |
Peter's essay on matter-of-factedness sucked big time but how can you not love Peter. He's such a sweet boy. |
Sober and not gay? Perfect. Just finish what you started - if it never stops. |
Sow a seed and let it grow, you never know where love will grow. |
The creation of this sugarplum fairy vision of what a city looks like or can look like is an unnecessary, and I think, slightly insulting view of human intelligence. |
The roof might be gone, or a giant oak tree has crashed through a window. |
This is our Katrina dividend. |
This is the only place in America where the historic neighborhoods aren't the exception, it's the non-historic neighborhoods that are the exception. |
When you think that the population of metropolitan New Orleans before Katrina was 485,000 and it's now 150,000, so two-thirds of the city is gone. The question of how to rebuild becomes very difficult. |