Food For Thought- Must See Architecture
This is a great website with past and present precedents that will blow your mind and inspire your soul.
The below image was created by a student at SciArc in Los Angeles.
boyz ‘n the garden
Lower 9th Ward Community Garden
The below link will take you to the website for a community garden in New Orleans. I think that many of us 1st year grad students would like to participate in something like this(one day when we have time!) if we haven’t already. My husband David met “Turner” day in New Orleans at a talk given by Majora Carter. Turner moved here in January from New York to start a community garden. He drove himself down in a school bus painted “New York to New Orleans”. He rents a plot of land in this blighted community and is teaching local kids, self proclaimed “hood rats” how to create a sustainable garden where they can grow food, feed themselves and their community, and develop marketable skills. Let’s go dig in the dirt with these dudes!
website: Lower 9th Ward Garden
Majora Carter was the star of today’s show in New Orleans. She is an environmental justice activist who founded the organization Sustainable South Bronx which seeks to combine issues of environmental sustainability with issues of social justice in the South Bronx, through which to provide skills training and jobs in the green collar economy. Her organization is helping to revitalize her neighborhood through environmental sustainability, landscape architecture, architecture, etc. Click the below link for Majora’s website.
website: Sustainable South Bronx
design: e 2 design(like “e” squared- where is that key on my computer?)
this is a tv series on pbs about the environment and design across the world. it is extremely relevant to our studies. you can order it on net flix. each show is about 30 minutes and there are a few shows per dvd.
