half in the bag
5 to 6 or six beers in
I turn the corner and see the book
text contributions by Hejduk

"House of Book"

the corner is an Ikea bookshelf
in a 150 year old small victorian aged home
there was a gravel road once in front of the house
now's it's a two (2) lane highway

18 wheelers shake the house

through restoration
i've learned movement in buildings
it starts with a crack of paint
a sign of stress and strain

after 150 years the brick foundation has moved inches
the tongue and groove wood floors
moved 1/8" of inches
the house is splitting down the middle.
slowly.

i'm not rich yet
but better off than most
i work long hours
but my back is never broke

i do what i love
and i love what i research
survey
inspect
reject
and fight for
with government officials who barely can read the code
let alone a plan.

if I make it out of this recession alive
which i will
i remember what an archinector once said
throughout the recession Holl, Hejduk, Woods...
kept working
being "architects"

i was green 10 years ago
everyone is doing it now
why do i feel as an architect it's time to move on
beyond.

"The five curved wedges are themselves shedding. They attempt to shed their skin of the past. They leave shedded metal structures, we can see the metal trusses shedding their encasements. The tall metal columns supporting the horizontal free buttresses exposed to wind, sun, rain, snow, night and day. These floating structures are the first shedding. The wedges close to the land-ships near the ground produce a second peeling, a second shedding takes place, making way for the birth of a pure white prow, for the whiteness is the innocence of children learning..to be free."

Thanks Hejduk and malting hops
for this I am irrelevant to the economy

let's not be cheesy

i never cared about money
so when times were good i was poor
i never cared about money
so when times are bad

architecture is there
and i'm there.