it may not look pretty...

but here are the powerpoints - in the order of presentation - converted and saved (all in the comfort of your own comfort):

• kyle's re-defining the fading city
  
• aviel's architecture interfacing people and nature
  
• lauren's re-cycled urbanism
  
• rachel's action architecture
  
• christian's community activism
  
• mark's environmental education
  
• seth's closer
• meghan e.'s reconstructing community
• meghan m.'s re-birth of housing
• tommy's assistance
• eva's architecture is about the journey

[ps. what is not pretty is how powerpoint saves as html... otherwise, everything is beautiful]

[pss. please add more/comment upon/continue thinking and feel free to take the pages as images from these or link to your link in your blog]

some thoughts about programs

i was thinking of programs last nite (after our discussion re. possibilities).  here is a short list of programs i wished i considered when i was doing my thesis [program: a city for the dead (aka. cemetery) in downtown los angeles]:

• study and research center for gaudi's sagrada familia (or mies' barcelona pavilion) (or, le corbusier's maison curutchet)...
• museum for alexander calder (or jean tingueley) (or paul klee) (rothko) (turner) (xul solar)... etc.
  
• bathhouse (based on roman precedents)
• library for the blind
• housing for exiled communities (ie. children from darfur) 
• conservatory and learning center for laban movement analysis dance (like this one) (or martha graham) or...
• a store for fnac in the u.s. 
• a "church" for modern satanists [and not the heavy metal, pentagram drawing, sacrificing calves in the middle of some new hampshire forest kind]
• the "doubling" of any existing program - as long as the new program has to deal with the existing one as its double... [ie. doubling the library of the national university in mexico city]
  
• community center + gas station (a la wright broadacre city)
• origami inspired motel
• laundromat for the next millenium

interest + intention

when thinking about your problem and project statements, remember:

problem statement = interest [ie. rationale for investigation]

why are you interested in this?

– personal? (ie. are you personally affected by this?)
– community?
– school?
– intellectual? (ie theoretical/conceptual problem or puzzle?)

what are the problems of the past? [ie. historically]

– have they been insufficiently addressed?
– are there failures/discrepancies (in the previous solutions)?
–is there a need to develop methods for solving the problems? 

project statement = intention [ie. goals + objectives]

intention of project

– to solve/address problem
– to rethink issues
– to make people aware of the problem

if you look carefully, your "manifesto" probably covers your interest and intention (because manifestos are usually highly personal reactions to "problems.")  the "thesis idea" is, then, an "abstracted" and "idealized" summary of the problem.

1 - 3 - 9

for this "assignment," remember that:

• the 1 line is like an (extended) title [or, thesis statement].

• the 3 lines are to serve as a brief description (that might be a summary of the main idea of a book; something akin to a annotation in an annotated bibliography).  

• the 9+ lines is the expanded explication of the idea/thesis [like what might be found in the inside dust jacket of a book].
  

also remember not to restate any part of the previous sentence/sentences in the longer ones and that all sentences should, in essence, say the same thing... (only longer or shorter)

manifestos manifest

"a specter is haunting europe...": the beginning line of the first (and most famous) manifesto.  written in 1848, marx's communist manifesto set the tone for manifestos to follow...

here are some links to other manifestos (besides the ones in the conrads book) that might be interesting...

• look closely at the tone, the direction, the aims, the attacks, etc.  
• notice that these people are waging an attack on something that they see as being terribly wrong... 
• note the passion with which they write.
  
• look at the metaphors that they use to describe the current conditions and solutions

shouldn't you feel this strong about something?

• the "original"
  
• marinetti's futurist manifesto
• futurist architecture manifesto
• a more contemporary softer yet polemic one 

and this one is an interesting one... if you really want write a manifesto

now... its your turn...  and post them on your blogs for the world to see your thoughts!  make your manifestos manifest!

workers of the world unite!