POIGNANT MEMOIR=FINAL SDSU EPOCH

                          +A BURST OF LIGHT-1994+

                               >before all went black<                      

                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

                              +TONIGHT'S PHOTOS+

     >Edward Bourke had been a great student assistant<

         >and his younger brother Jim took over helping<

             >me w/ the same talent in that last epoch<

                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

 

 

         #1)                 +MARIAN & I =1994+      

          >Jim Bourke took this photo of Marian and I in<

              >Switzerland at the Rudolf Steiner School<

                   >where i had gone for a conference<

                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

                                 +GOETHEANUM+

            >was a prestigious place to lecture and we<

                >also installed a representative group<

                     >of my Radiant Design graphics<

                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

        #2)           +SDSU=ED=STUDIO 1994+

          >this was the "nerve center" of our last days<

              >and the source of our final exhibition<

                  >for the Bucky Fuller fFoundation<

                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

                ( >many exhibition furniture parts<

                    >i had designed for our large<

                       +ECCENTRIC PLACES+

                  >exhibition of the late eighties<)

                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

        #3)            +TENSILE STRUCTURE+

                 >won our trophy at San Luis Obispo<

                        +RESILIENCE IMPORTANT+

           >bamboo framed tensile fabric panels with<

             >Synergetic lighting in a student design<

                  >was a typical "hands on" solution<

                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

         #4)             +DAILY NOTEBOOK+

        >someday, after i leave this earth, a complete<   

           >review of my daily design thinking can be<  

                >found in the pages of essay books<

                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

                      +ALL STRUCTURES AND+

                       +LECTURES ARE HERE+   

                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

         #5)             +LAST EXHIBITIONS+ 

          >still were energized by the inventions that<

           >i had made a quarter of a century before< 

                     +RADIANT ARCHITECTURE+

            >is alive well and growing as technology<

               >makes possible all we can imagine<

                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

                            +REMOTE VIEWING+

                                        >and<           

                           +GENETIC MEMORY+

        >are proven phenomena and have occupied< 

             >my thinking and writing for some time<

                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

                        +SHELL STRUCTURES+

            >and domes are intelligent concepts for<         

                      +DISASTER RESISTANCE+

                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

                                +1969-1996+

                +SDSU=ED PREDICTED THIS+

                    +SOCIETY IS BACKWARD+

                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

                    gene ray, lajolla, california

                   >eugene ray, mfa, architect<

                    >professor emeritus, sdsu<