>these final "midnight musings"<
>before our louisiana journey<
+OFFER+
>some perspective to the<
>design oeuvre evolution<
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS+
>caused by a ufo sighting<
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>raised my ultimate design vision in<
>the sansouci forest/jungle locus<
>of our ancestor's covington<
+1959-1969+
>to a transcendental plateau via<
+CIRCLE DESIGN FOCUS+
^^^^^^^^^^^^
+TONIGHT'S PHOTOS+
>reveal the conceptual evolution<
>to its final california maturity<
+1969-1996+
^^^^^
>(near covington louisiana)<
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>first design for the jungle studio<
>residence was round and a<
+UNIVERSAL+
>cosmic consciousness design<
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+THIS WAS INVENTIVE+
+USING STRESSED+
>(box beam)<
+STRUCTURE DESIGN+
^^^^^^^^^^^
>the glazed pavilion i finally built<
>was more affordable as it<
+13,500 DOLLARS+
>was built in 2 months<
^^^^^^^^^^^
(>design made in two weeks<
+POST AND BEAM W/+
+PREFAB ROOF+
>of construction drawings<)
^^^^^^^^^^^
+GLAZED WALLS+
>also<
>brought the jungle into the house<
>while providing a strong feel<
+NIGHT RADIANCE+
>for cosmic consciousness<
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>design became my most advanced<
>louisiana mode by mid-decade<
+1965+
>with this concept for an office<
>for landscape architects in<
+WEST VIRGINIA+
^^^^^^^^
>this coincided with an invitation<
>to teach @ lsu architecture<
>department by professors<
+ROBERT W. HECK+
>and<
+PATRICK D. STAUB+
^^^^^^^^^^
>pat staub will attend the lunch<
>in new orleans when i gift<
>my drawings to the<
^^^^^^^^^^^
+HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS+
+C O L L E C T I O N+
^^^^^^^^^
>(mature radiant design mode)<
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>is seen in these two designs made<
>in california for an anthropoligy<
+TANZANIA+
>field headquarters for africa<
+U.C.-BERKELEY+
^^^^^^^^
>and an art & architecture building<
>for southeast louisiana university<
+COMPETITION ENTRY+
>(designed in lajolla california)<
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>(radiance)<
+PRIMARY LOUISIANA+
+A E S T H E T I C S+
^^^^^^^^^^
>was a research paper i wrote at<
+TULANE UNIVERSITY+
>to stress the value i felt by the<
+TROPIC SYNDROME+
>in the new orleans of our<
>french creole people<
^^^^^^^^^^
+JUNGLE ESSENCE OF THE WEST+
+INDIES ALWAYS A STRONG+
+I N S P I R A T I O N+
^^^^^^^^^^
(>this paper progendered<
>the bungalow paper<
+1974-1975+)
^^^^^^
gene ray lajolla, california
>eugene ray, mfa, architect<
>professor emeritus, sdsu<
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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