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Sociology
Social formation
Causation
Sociological imagination
Intersecting biography
personal history
Artistic forms
Marry the popular
with the scholarly
History making
Human agency
Social relations
Organize reality
Social locations
Share authority
Transmutation
Think dialectically
Geographic literacy
Self determination
Public history
Concentration
Neuro-Linguistic programming
I see it, I feel it, I know it, I got it
I was born in Long Beach
lived all my life in LA county
though I’ve stayed local
I grew up jumping geography
running around the city
working in every corner
I found my community
performing poetry &
writing neighborhood stories
I learned what it means
To be accountable
teaching high school &
raising my kids
we are all interconnected
Recitations
Layers of identity
The daily practice:
Types of practicality
the present history
future of responsibility
so we sing about society
This is Sociology
Transformative solidarity
Problems, methods,
Theory
All of this sociology
Really just comes
Back to you & me
Architectonic City
Architectonic City
Broadacre City
City Center
Central City
Celestial City
Carceral City
Digital City
Edge City
Forbidden City
Future City
Garden City
Golden City
Gotham City
Iron City
Invisible City
Imperial City
Infinite City
Imaginary City
International City
October City
Radiant City
Titan City
City Beautiful
City as Shopping Mall
City as Dining Hall
City as Museum
City as Monument
City as classroom
City as Wilderness
City as Postcard
City as Landmark
City of Towers
City of Fire
City of Lights
City of Night
City of Vision
City of Ambition
City of Insiders
City of Love
City of Violence
City of Music
City of Silence.
Sonic Architecture
City Architecture
Architectonic City
Joy of Architecture
Seven Lamps of Architecture
Poetics of Architecture
Storybook Architecture
Fortress Architecture
Handcrafted Architecture
Craftsman Architecture
Baroque Architecture
Audio Architecture
Ada Louise Huxtable on Architecture
Churrigueresque Architecture
Southern California Institute of Architecture
Louis Sullivan on Architecture
Information Architecture
Programmatic Architecture
Greco-Roman Architecture
Architecture of Humanism
Atlantic Architecture
Victorian Architecture
Vernacular Architecture
Vancouver Architecture
Romanesque Architecture
Romance of Architecture
Architecture of Happiness
Modernist Architecture
Postmodern Architecture
Hostile Architecture
Brutalist Architecture
Future of Architecture
Respect Architecture
Traces, Places, Faces
Traces, places, faces
Connecting spaces
Cultural, historical, personal
3 realms of interpretation
channels for communication
A Way to Rainy Mountain
We slow down the conversation
writing morning pages
positions of contemplation
bridging liminal spaces
Interdisciplinary relations
Intersecting history & biography
Tracing the lineage through
Journeys, Natures, Conflicts,
Knowledges, LA Stories,
print, sound, light
fight the good fight
My students write about
personal artifacts like the ring
gifted to them by their grandfather
after the Armenian Genocide
We put the heart
in liberal arts
Traces
Uncovering, a series of marks, an outline,
a passage, a record or physical indication
of something that vanished, an etching,
a great turning of pages,
take time to see the traces
Observations in an essay,
a litany of lyrics, Critical cartography
Public history, Cultural geography
Ecofeminism & deep ecology
My students & I took a walk along
the Concrete River talking about
Man versus nature
Places
I met my wife in a piano bar
downstairs from the hip hop room
A circle of friends singing
on the dancefloor everyday
is your birthday!
Social locations
navigation
A locale, locus, location, a station, a designated area
of meaningful activity, a center of memory, a region,
a facility, a landmark, a natural site, a waterfall,
an architectural marvel, connected to experience,
an open mic, a Socratic dialogue,
two feral cats in my backyard
Faces
Back in the 1980s I was
picking mint leaves with
my Grandmother in Long Beach
People are a beacon, family, women & men in the city,
friends, colleagues, associates, long lost cohorts
from childhood, aces of the neighborhood, uniting
heart & mind together spending time
lets bring it back to the work
that reconnects
building community
draw your history
a reframing
Intergenerational exchanging
Historiography
Sharing authority
Autoethnography
It comes back to you & me
sharing space
traces, places, faces
Who’s To Say What Architecture Is?
Who’s to say what Architecture is?
Citizens, historians or the critics?
See it for yourself or read the theorists.
Drive a truck like Mike Davis.
Fortress architecture is geopolitics.
Who’s to say what Architecture is?
Sci-Arc or Architectural Digest?
Frank Lloyd Wright or Le Corbusier?
See it for yourself or read the theorists.
Frank Gehry is a Deconstructivist
The Bilbao Effect attracts tourists.
Who’s to say what Architecture is?
Louis Sullivan’s Function of Ornament,
Jewel Box Banks & steel skyscrapers.
See it for yourself or read the theorists.
City knowledge comes from reconnaissance.
Walk the streets like Jane Jacobs.
Who’s to say what Architecture is?
See it for yourself or read the theorists.
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