Inspired by Jo Steffen’s book Unpacking my Library: Architects and their Books, I wondered what personal libraries of GA Tech COA faculty looked like and what books would make their ‘Top 10′. The list and photo-documentation hopes to provide a means of gaining insight into their intellectual interests, curiosities, tastes, and personalities. //
Occupy Atlanta (Woodruff Park) / Midtown Music (Piedmont Park) / The Beltline
As the Occupy movement hibernates for the winter, I wish to reflect on their contribution to the debate over the role of urban green space in society. //
You call that a zoo, this is a zoo! //
Kinder Baumgardner plays Get With The Program: orphange/ fountain of youth / megachurch (programs) in a hidden room (site)
In the first installation of the SOA lecture series interviews for Fall 2011, gray_matter(s) and AIAS discover Kinder Baumgardner’s favorite city, his attitude to sustainability, how the transformation of the I-75/85 Connector will improve Atlanta and how he takes his coffee. //
As we return to the academic studio, escaping the reality of the Great Recession that left many of us unemployed this summer, I wonder whether the frustration and sense of injustice that resulted in protests and riots that ravaged Europe this summer will bridge the Atlantic? //
