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Essence of Place: Wyoming

MiesvanderRice

I was talking with friends today about critical regionalism and I find myself wondering about its extents. Everyone knows about the Rural Studio (Mockbee, Duh), the Arizona School, (Will Bruder, Rick Joy, Wendell Burnett) and to some extent the Sea Ranch and the Northwest kids. I recently read about Byoungsoo Cho in Montana, about a Korean coming to a remote place and finding the essence, or what was thought be so, of that place and acting upon it. Where else are people doing this? What's in Wyoming?

 
Apr 16, 06 11:18 pm
bob_dobbalina

space

Apr 16, 06 11:24 pm  · 
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MiesvanderRice

Is that a good firm?

Apr 19, 06 5:50 pm  · 
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MiesvanderRice

Are there no Wyomians (Wyominians, Wyomites) on the board? I saw some beautiful pictures by a student here , Judd Moore, earlier in the year, of the snow fences and the spaces and landscapes they create on the high prarie. It seems like there would be someone channeling these things into architectural form.

Apr 19, 06 5:53 pm  · 
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bob_dobbalina

What's in Wyoming?

space

Apr 19, 06 5:54 pm  · 
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MiesvanderRice

the final frontier?

Apr 19, 06 5:58 pm  · 
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bob_dobbalina

I have been to Wyoming, Yellowstone in particular. High pine forests, grasslands, geysers, hot water bubbling up out of the ground. Besides that it is pretty much the same as most of the west, Idaho, Colorado, Cali . . .

Apr 19, 06 6:00 pm  · 
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bob_dobbalina

but the skies in Arizona, they go on forever . . .

Apr 19, 06 6:11 pm  · 
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FRO

you might still see it in the desert ............

Apr 19, 06 6:14 pm  · 
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bob_dobbalina

what?

Apr 19, 06 6:16 pm  · 
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vado retro

i saw her standin
on her front lawn
justa twirlin her baton
me and her went for a ride son
and ten innocent people died
from the town of lincoln nebraska
with a sawed off fourten in my lap
through the badlands of wyoming
we killed everything in our path...

Apr 19, 06 7:15 pm  · 
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vado retro

theres this...

Apr 19, 06 7:17 pm  · 
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MiesvanderRice

vado, what is that? It looks like something out of the simpsons, or an alien movie.

Or maybe a Steven Holl/Antoine Predock collaboration?

Apr 19, 06 9:33 pm  · 
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