RADIANT ARCHITECTURE / to new orleans

+PROFESSOR MATTHEW HIGGINS+

>of sdsu has invited me, upon our return from<

>new orleans to be a guest in his class that i<

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+>>/ ENVIRON THEORY"+

>wrote and taught for a quarter of a century<

>and i am touched by that kind invitation<

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+"DEATH OF ORTHODOXY"+

>is the title professor higgins has given to<

>the session that i will be the guest and he<

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+RADIANT ARCHITECTURE)+

>refers of the challenge to the very famed<

>international style so popular in the 50s<

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+MY>LOUISIANA< WORK WAS+

+BORN IN THAT VERY VITAL+

>(international style possessed<

>affordable, healthy light but<

>its problem was in >boxes)<

+BREAK FROM ORTHODOXY+

+THAT WAS HEAVY & DARK+

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 >a key to radiant architecture can be seen in the<
>photo plates at the bottom of our last exhibition<
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+SYNERGETIC ENVIRONS)+
>of sdsu student work in which biotronic energy<
>is seen out of my class ref to synergetic design<
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>my california villas challenged the orthodoxy<
>of the international style by breaking away<
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+/ BIOTRONIC ENERGY)+
>from boxes & incorporating energy design<
>both in solar heating & biotronic radiance<
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>it was a pleasure to lecture on, exhibit & publish<
>my work in biotronic design in many countries<
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+> / REYNER BANHAM)+
>and i am happy that the great scholar reyner<
>banam and his wife mary liked this work<
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 >something i shared with my archigram friends<
>from london was an effort to create a radiant<
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>urban scape by incorporating super graphic<
>signage as i personally painted in this case<
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 >in 1980 i completed the silver ship studio home<
>for my family & myself aided by five devoted<
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+>>>>/ SILVER SHIP)+
>students from my sdsu classes….from this has<
>emerged the advanced biotronic design effort<
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 >a wide range of radiant architecture has<
>challenged the orthodoxy of the boxes<
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+>/ CALIFORNIA VILLAS)+
>so common in the international style<
>& provided a vital energy dimension<
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 >synchronistically, the first structure i designed<
>in california was this concept for an art and<
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+. / GEODESIC DOME)+
>architecture building that incorporated the<
>major biotronic dome circular master plan<
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 >the final phase of this blog on radiant architecture<
>relates to the decade of the 1990s when biotronic<
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+> LONDON LECTURES)+
>design oriented to spherical & conical concepts<
>was my major focus & exhibitions world wide<
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+ORTHODOXY+

>in relation to the international style was partially<

>correct,... certainly as the structures i built in<

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+POST & BEAM STRUCTURE+

>louisiana were affordable & healthier with<

>much glass providing more ambient light<

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+CALIFORNIA BUNGALOW+

>to find that lajolla's california bungalows<

>were prototypes for more natural light<

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+CONICAL & SPHERICAL VOLUME+

>PROVIDING BIOTRONIC ENERGY+

>(radiant architecture tapped<

>into nature's bio-radiance)<

+WAS MY MAJOR CONTRIBUTION+

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eugene ray, mfa, architect

professor emeritus, sdsu