Hello, I'm Marlin.
This is the inaugural episode of a series documenting a road trip across the American West. Writing an introduction to an introduction seems redundant, so I hope you enjoy watching this introductory episode. Like an intro track on a rap album, we have a lot of ground to cover about the ground we are about to cover. This is an architectural sabbatical, beginning and ending in Los Angeles and traveling as far east as Chicago. We'll make the land a large museum and each building site will become objects for study and scrutiny.

From a native shaman to a casino tycoon and an excavated building about everything in-between, enjoy the inaugural episode of The American West. And enjoy Archinect Travels. Check in each week for new episodes of The American West series.

Thanks for watching,
Marlin