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Redding School of the Arts
Currently under construction, the Redding School of the Arts was created with three basic ideals in mind:
A design that teaches others
A design that shares itself
A design that inspires all
The new Redding School of the Arts will not just be the home of teachers helping to prepare students for the future. The school itself – with its [...]
January 28th, 2010 | Tags: Current, Energy, LEED, Schools, Theater
The Education of Design, Part 2
We welcome you to visit our favorite local resource for what’s going on in and around Redding, California these days. Following is an excerpt from the second part of our article on the new Redding School of the Arts:
I have said in the past that for us to “get it”, we need to see examples of what is [...]
June 10th, 2009 | Tags: Art, Community, Energy, LEED, McConnell, Schools
The Education of Design, Part 1
We’re back to our favorite local resource for what’s going on in and around Redding, California these days. Following is an excerpt from my newest article on the new Redding School of the Arts:
If you have ever watched a disaster movie where a giant asteroid is hurtling toward the earth, bringing with it death and destruction [...]
June 2nd, 2009 | Tags: Community, Energy, McConnell, Schools
For the Glory
The 2009 Kinetic Grand Championship on California’s north coast was held on Memorial Day weekend, the 40th time this race has taken place since its modest beginnings in 1969. We were there with friends to watch the beginning of the race, and it’s difficlut to imagine a more fun way to spend a few hours. [...]
If Cars Could Fly…
If you’re looking for the perfect gift for someone who has everything, this may be it. The idea of flying cars goes back to the 1930’s, well before we were treated to the Jetson’s flying car on TV. The latest entry into car – plane hybrids is the Terrafugia Transition designed by MIT – trained [...]
All That Glitters is Not Green
Here is a brief excerpt from my conference talk:
These days it seems as though “Green” is everywhere we turn. Environmentally friendly living ideas have finally made it to mainstream America, or at the very least, Good Morning America. The message being broadcast is clear from coast to coast: “Green is good, and it’s here to stay”. [...]
Is Nuclear Fusion Finally (almost) Here?
When it comes to research into new energy sources, this may just be “The Next Really Cool Thing”:
If you hang around the renewable-energy business for long, you’ll hear a lot of tall tales. You’ll hear about someone who’s invented a process to convert coal into vegetable oil in his garage and someone else who has [...]
Soft Toilet Paper is Rough on Forests
It seems as though toilet paper is no longer flying beneath the environmental radar. It cannot be denied that America has a love for soft tissue…
But fluffiness comes at a price: millions of trees harvested in North America and in Latin American countries, including some percentage of trees from rare old-growth forests of Canada. Although toilet tissue [...]
Thomas Friedman on the John Stewart Show
Thomas L. Friedman won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for commentary, his third Pulitzer for The New York Times. Mr. Friedman’s book, “The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century,” was released in April 2005 and won the inaugural Goldman Sachs/Financial Times Business Book of the Year award. His latest book, “Hot,Flat and [...]
A Polar Bear in London
No, it’s not what you think.
If you went down to the Thames today you were sure of a big surprise. This giant sculpture of a polar bear stranded on a block of ice floated 7.5 miles from Greenwich towards the centre of London to highlight the problem of melting ice caps. - Daily Telegraph
Plan B 3.0 Mobilizing to Save Civilization
If you could read only one book on climate change and how to survive the next 100 years, this should be it. Lester Brown has clearly laid out each of the many challenges our planet faces now and in the near future. He backs up his cautionary statement with enough documentation to satisfy any reader who has the desire to probe more deeply into this subject. But [...]
Are You a Hypermiler?
If you own a Hybrid car, chances are you have changed your driving habits at least a little bit to see how high you can get that miles-per-gallon average. Well now several car companies are taking this idea to an entirely new level:
When new hybrids from Ford and Honda roll into showrooms this spring, drivers will find flashy [...]
No more can we applaud designs that fail to take our planet into consideration, the time has come to let go the architecture of convenience and to embrace an architecture of connection.
Sketchbook
As Random As
The 2009 Kinetic Grand Championship on California’s north coast was held on Memorial Day weekend, the 40th time this race has taken place since its modest beginnings in 1969. We were there with friends to watch the beginning of the race, and it’s difficlut to imagine a more fun way to spend a few hours. [...]
June 1st, 2009 | For the Glory
In Reality
Competing in a 1981 national competition against 1,420 other entries, an unknown undergraduate at Yale University named Maya Ying Lin was selected as the winner for her design for the Vietnam Memorial. Her concept was simple and inspirational:
She wanted to create a park within a park – a quiet protected place onto itself, yet harmonious with [...]
June 1st, 2009 | A Flash of Genius
Beyond Ideas
If you’re looking for the perfect gift for someone who has everything, this may be it. The idea of flying cars goes back to the 1930’s, well before we were treated to the Jetson’s flying car on TV. The latest entry into car – plane hybrids is the Terrafugia Transition designed by MIT – trained [...]
May 29th, 2009 | If Cars Could Fly…
In Reality
If you are an architect and you are not inspired by this building by the twentieth century architectural icon Louis Kahn, then you need to change professions. The Exeter Library, with Kahn’s typically dramatic interior spaces framed in powerful but simple forms is a potent reminder that what is inside a building is as much (or more) about architecture as [...]
May 15th, 2009 | Inspiration Revisited
Through Art
Nathan Sawaya is our staff’s pick for Today’s Featured Artist. In fact, we enjoy Nathan’s art so much TRILOGY is one of the sponsors of his exhibit, “The Art of the Brick” at the Turtle Bay Exploration Park , showing from May 16, 2009 through January 3, 2010. Anyone who ever played with LEGO blocks as [...]
May 12th, 2009 | Art of The Brick
Through Art
Ben Butler is our staff’s pick for Today’s Featured Artist. We find his sculptures of patterned wood especially appealing.
“The spirit of science, of discovery and illumination, is central to my art. Ultimately, everything made is first found. Yet, for both art and science, successful work must allow others not to simply rediscover what you have [...]
May 5th, 2009 | Intensely Wood
Across Town
If you’ve ever driven along California Highway 299 in Shasta County past the small town of Ingot (population 30), you’ve probably wondered about the story behind these ruins. All that remains of what once was a functioning and robust enterprise, these sketetal ”bones” only hint at what once existed here.
“In 1873 Marcus Peck purchased the Copper Hill Mine group [...]
May 3rd, 2009 | The Architecture of Ruins
Between Pages
This book is a very personal look into how a very small segment of home building is slowly evolving toward prefabrication, while at the same time the construction industry as a whole remains as the status quo. The author, founding editor in chief of Dwell magazine Karrie Jacobs, embarks on a search across America for a [...]
April 30th, 2009 | The Perfect $100,000 House
Through Art
Celeste White is our staff’s pick for Today’s Featured Artist. As we’ve said before, Northern California has some wonderful artists, and Celeste is another great example.
“In my work, I have two main purposes: In my individual pieces, I strive to create beauty where there might be perceived ugliness, to redeem materials that otherwise might be [...]
April 27th, 2009 | Finding Treasure
During Class
This year is 2007. I am a fifth year architecture student at Montana State University, and my assignment is to design a staircase. I decide to use this as an opportunity to explore the artistic notion of a stair connecting land and water within Guerney State Park in Wyoming. Not wanting to obstruct the park’s [...]
April 24th, 2009 | An Extreme Staircase
In Reality
This scene from the 2001 movie Life as a House features an encounter with a building inspector that is completely unbelievable. However, we include it under the category of “wishful thinking”, because most architects only wish they could take care of building code issues this easily.
April 23rd, 2009 | I wish I was a Hollywood Architect, Part 2
After Thoughts
if as architects we lived long enough to be able to see our work age
within the confines of its
natural environment, suffering neither deterioration nor neglect…
and in the process
actually become the better for it?
12/25/2003
April 20th, 2009 | Wouldn’t it be Nice…
Out of School
Here is a brief excerpt from my conference talk:
These days it seems as though “Green” is everywhere we turn. Environmentally friendly living ideas have finally made it to mainstream America, or at the very least, Good Morning America. The message being broadcast is clear from coast to coast: “Green is good, and it’s here to stay”. [...]
April 16th, 2009 | All That Glitters is Not Green
After Thoughts
that
rebuilding our cities
often begins with what seems
like a backward step:
It’s called addition by destruction.
12/25/2005
The removal of the first section of roof over the Redding Downtown Mall, Redding, California.
April 14th, 2009 | It should come as no surprise…
In Reality
From its opening on April 22, 1939 in Racine, Wisconsin, the SC Johnson Wax Administration Building by Frank Lloyd Wright was destined to become one of the finest examples of 20th century American architecture. The Great Workroom, covering nearly on-half acre, must be seen in person (as I have) to be truly appreciated and the entry foyer [...]
April 13th, 2009 | What Timeless Really Means
On The Frontier
When it comes to research into new energy sources, this may just be “The Next Really Cool Thing”:
If you hang around the renewable-energy business for long, you’ll hear a lot of tall tales. You’ll hear about someone who’s invented a process to convert coal into vegetable oil in his garage and someone else who has [...]
April 11th, 2009 | Is Nuclear Fusion Finally (almost) Here?
Through Art
Bryan Tedrick is our staff’s pick for Today’s Featured Artist. Northern California has some wonderful artists, and Bryan Tedrick certainly fits into this category.
“While I may have a general idea in mind when creating a sculpture, the passages that constitute the whole are a surprise to me. Any durable material is fair game in this [...]
April 7th, 2009 | A Satisfying Map of the Journey
Between Pages
Architects have long been fascinated with the idea of designing prefabricated housing. The question remains, however, as to why they haven’t experienced as much success as might be expected. This book offers a clear explanation of the often dysfunctional relationship between architect and prefabrication while offering examples of both their successes and their failures. While the author offers [...]
April 7th, 2009 | The Prefabricated Home
On The Frontier
This fascinating video was discovered by one of our own designers, Josh. Is it art or is it science? You will have to decide for youself, but as you watch try to imagine the possible applications for this “evolving lifeform”. We can think of several.
April 6th, 2009 | The Art of Creating Creatures
Between Pages
This is not a new book – in fact, it was published to great acclaim back in 2005 – but it’s worth featuring again as the best-selling author has just released his newest book Hot, Flat and Crowded. This is a book of ideas, a thought-provoking dissertation on how the world has become more interconnected, [...]
April 5th, 2009 | The World is Flat
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