METAPHYSICAL VISION / architecture and graphics

TODAY, WE RETURN TO SDSU+

>i want to avoid being emotional, so i must be serious<

>ironically my best slides are enroute to new orleans<

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+/ PROF. ROBERT RAY)+

>where those kind folk are digitizing them ( i thank<

>professor robert ray for packing & shipping them<

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+TOMMY, CHRIS & ZAC MCINTOSH+

>sent me a "get well" card of a huge bruiser (mr t)<

>telling me to get well (or else)….my response is<

>i need "mr t", i told my nola friends, to protect<

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+/ TOMMY MCINTOSH)+

>me from a lynch mob of old students who<

>wondered why i didn't give their "a' grade<

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+TONIGHT'S BLOG+

>is dedicated to my old friends john & tania<

>messina …jonn was my first l.s.u. student<

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+>>>/ JOHN MESSINA)+

>and he & tania lived in nola when i was<

>building 3 radiant vieux carre projects<

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+PHOTOGRAPHY+

>was john's talented focus then and he<

>took the photos for "american home"<

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+ARCHITECT / TUSCON)+

>magazine that appear just below<

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 >tania in her sleek 1967 era very chic mini, was<
>john's perfect model (she actually is a gifted<
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+TRAYLER APARTMENT)+
>writer and organic cook) we had a lot of<
>fun in the vieux carre in those good days<
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 >this human aspect of an artist-architect's life<
>i decided was valuable …and starting in the<
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+/ METAPHYSICAL ART)+
>early 1970s i developed a form of mail art<
>that i have labeled as metaphysical vision<
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 >one of my objectives w/ this blog is to focus<
>on the more obscure designs of my oeuvre<
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+BOHOL ISLAND SCHOOL)+
>like this school for deaf children that is<
>constructed in the phillippine jungle<
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 >cinema has been a favorite art form in life<
>especially foreign cinema…like the films<
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+/ DR ANTON MESMER)+
>of ingmar bergman….this special one is<
>"the magician" inspired by dr mesmer<
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 >my former student & friend, prof philip<
>matzigkeit of sdsu once gave me a book<
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+/ COUNT ST. GERMAIN)+
>about my favorite french magician, the<
>great "st germain", alchemist & genius<
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 >my favorite "organic architecture" opportunity<
>came my way for a beach resort in the tropics<
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+/ ECO MUNDO RESORT)+
>of baja california mexico entitled eco mundo<
>this was constructed of indigenous materials<
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 >this was the original entrance to sdsu and<
>i shall never forget the pleasure these two<
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>leonardo like towers gave me each day<
>upon arrival by bus w/ other sdsu profs<
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 >sdsu was still a "college" when i arrived but<
>we beat all the "universities" in competitions<
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 >so by the time i retired, we were a full blown<
>univ /....our program internationally known<
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 >after ten years designing in california, the<
>leading japanese architecture journal , a+u<
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>(architecture & urbanism) published this<
>special edition w/ 4 pages of my work<
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 >four of my houses featured in that a+u issue<
>do display the variety that is possible in<
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+POST & BEAM HOUSES)+
>creative house design…post & beam<
>houses below, were very economical<
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 >the house seen above, & top left, is a solar<
>heated design using passive solar from 4<
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+PASSIVE SOLAR HEAT)+
>greenhouses transmitting heat into two<
>rammed earth-conc block solar towers<
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>starting in 1985, the last decade of my years<
>at sdsu were lighted by exhibitions, lectures<
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+EXHIBITIONS & LECTURES)+
>and publications in ten different countries<
>i am very grateful for those who aided me<
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+SOME DEVOTED ALUMNI+
+ASSISTED ME OVER THE+
>(dave fobes & jim bourke<
>continue to this very day<
>others i sense daily here)<
+SDSU YEARS AND I  AM+
+SOO VERY GRATEFUL+ !
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eugene ray, mfa, architect
professor emeritus, sdsu