Moving is a major life stressor and I’m glad J. and I made it to the other side! Mostly settled in now, and making the new space our own, here’s to our home for the next 5 years or so!
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Though not a registered student, I am lucky to still find myself regularly on campus. As a member of the team that leads history and architecture tours at Caltech, our schedule aligns with that of the students - we get the summer off and return to the monthly tour schedule in the fall.
Our tours generally have been of the historal campus buildings but we have started to lead special tours of the modern campus, too. This post covers some of the modern buildings.
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I often explore my city by foot and consider it a good run when I find something new of visual interest. Here in this post, a random collection of breeze block building adornment in central Pasadena.
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As someone with an interest in modernist and mid-century architecture, I consider myself fortunate to live within jogging distance of the Poppy Peak Historic District, full of mid-century homes, many by noted modernist architects.
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