This one was fun - the annual birthday month half-marathon. A great way to celebrate the start of another orbit around the sun.
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The plan last Friday was to give a tour at the Salk to a group of architects in the morning, work a bit, then attend a talk up the street at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) given by Billie Tsien. who along with her husband Tod Williams, designed a "perfect cloister" for scientific thought.
At the last minute before leaving home for the Salk, I packed the napkin sketch that I bid on at the NewSchool of Architecture fundraiser last year. It was an unusual one as sketches go, more like origami than a pen and ink sketch but it had been created by Billie Tsien. I thought if I had a moment with her at TSRI that we could take a photo together.
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Do you have a happy place? My happy place, at least for running, is Morro Bay, CA. It's a small town on the central coast of California, about 110 miles north of Santa Barbara. From most any spot in Morro Bay, the Rock is usually visible.
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"Have you seen the documentary My Architect? I had to smile when someone asked me that - it's a question I usually ask visitors when leading architecture tours at the Salk Institute. This post is about my architect, who recently graduated from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (SLO).
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