Archinect - University of Hong Kong (Evan)

Swamped

2008-10-27T05:40:09-04:00

Practical thinking: Take LEED 2.2 while in school.

My apologies for a pretty weak blog. I'll try to keep up with the others, but I have my reasons.

My head is a chopped salad consisting of Coasian, Schumpeterian and Pigovian Theories, Hong Kong case law, a jumble of Cantonese and Mandarin and to top it off LEED Credits, Standards and HVAC formulas. Luckily, I wash it all down with a nice glass of Port every night. (Thanks Dr. Ip)

Architecture school was so much easier. I miss the days and nights of rubbing collected dirt onto vellum, tweaking splines and nurbs into the morning light, wiping the blood of off the CNC machine, and a coffee and smoke every half and hour.

I suppose this is a healthier diet.

Don't get me wrong, it's not that I'm not enjoying the program, it's just a major shift from an architecture program. I have absolutely no regrets, in fact, I'm sure that my fellow bloggers, as myself, are happy to be engulfed in the protective arms of Academia right now.

Rei...

thought process

2008-09-23T09:09:54-04:00

take a break...click here

It's all around you

2008-09-21T23:01:06-04:00

There's really nothing in particular to see in Hong Kong, "It's all around you" I'm paraphrasing what I overheard at a bar atop the LKF hotel in Lan Kwai Fung.
It's also a Tortoise album which has been on repeat on my BB for the last couple of days.

To a certain extent he's right. It's the kind of city needs to be taken in and digested. For that matter, it's similar to Los Angeles. Of course the two are vastly different in terms of scale (vertical v. horizontal), but to understand them you must take plenty of healthy bites. Needless to say, I'm devouring Hong Kong.

I'm staying in an area called Discovery Bay for now. It's a planned community on an outlying island (Lantau). How I ended up here isn't relevant, but it's allowed me insight into a side of HK that I have never seen. "Disco Bay" is typically where all of the expats live. The residents are able to live in a bubble secluded from the bustle of Central. One of the benefits of the community is that the development has allowe...

First Weeks Readings

2008-09-05T02:55:01-04:00

Week One

Coase, Ronald H. “The Problem of Social Cost”
The Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 3 (October 1960)

Coase, Ronald H. “The Nature of the Firm”
Econimics, New Series, Vol. 4 (October 1937)

Cheung, Steven N. S. “The Theory of Price Control”
Economica, Vol. 4 (November 1937)

Hardin, Gerrett “The Tragedy of the Commons”
Science, Vol. 162 (December 1968)

Becker, Gary S. “Irrational Behavior and Economic Theory”
The Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 70 (February 1962)

and as a refresher...

Schwartz, Peter. The Art of the Long View, Planning for the Future in an Uncertain World . New York: Currency Doubleday, 1991.