For those of you who don't follow our RSS feed, or our Twitter feed, our Facebook Fan Page, or our discussion forum... Archinect Travels has been updated! It's been a little over a year since the latest episode was posted, so some of you might need an introduction (or a refresher):
Archinect Travels is a video-documentary of the American West, directed/hosted/shot/narrated/edited/scored by Marlin Watson. Marlin originally developed his voice and following in Archinect's School Blog Project, as a representative of SCI-Arc. In 2007, after graduation, he packed up his rental truck with a video camera, laptop, GPS and equal amounts of time and cigarettes. Since then we've had the pleasure of following his adventures via his freakishly well-crafted video installments... which brings us to Episode #12. The last episode in the first act, yet the longest of any of the previous episodes, this installment takes us from Hot Springs to Rosebud, South Dakota...
In this episode I travel to the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota to visit the campus of Sinte Gleska University. From 1995 - 2000, architect Michael Rotondi of the firm ROTO Architects built a series of buildings on this campus and my visit highlights one of them, the Winter Solstice Building for distance learning. What I found there during my trip left me with questions, and Rotondi was gracious enough to answer them.
In case you haven't seen any of the previous episodes, I highly recommend you put aside some time to follow Marlin's experiences from Los Angeles, CA to Laughlin, NV to Phoenix, AZ to Scottsdale, AZ to Sedona, AZ to Mesa Verde, CO to Monte Vista, CO to Denver, CO to Boulder, CO to Laramie, WY to Alliance, NE to Hot Springs, SD to Rosebud, SD. To make it easier you can even download the episodes in iPod/iPhone format.
» Archinect Travels
For those of you who don't follow our RSS feed, or our Twitter feed, our Facebook Fan Page, or our discussion forum... Archinect Travels has been updated! It's been a little over a year since the latest episode was posted, so some of you might need an introduction (or a refresher):
Archinect Travels is a video-documentary of the American West, directed/hosted/shot/narrated/edited/scored by Marlin Watson. Marlin originally developed his voice and following in Archinect's School Blog Project, as a representative of SCI-Arc. In 2007, after graduation, he packed up his rental truck with a video camera, laptop, GPS and equal amounts of time and cigarettes. Since then we've had the pleasure of following his adventures via his freakishly well-crafted video installments... which brings us to Episode #12. The last episode in the first act, yet the longest of any of the previous episodes, this installment takes us from Hot Springs to Rosebud, South Dakota...
In this episode I travel to the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota to visit the campus of Sinte Gleska University. From 1995 - 2000, architect Michael Rotondi of the firm ROTO Architects built a series of buildings on this campus and my visit highlights one of them, the Winter Solstice Building for distance learning. What I found there during my trip left me with questions, and Rotondi was gracious enough to answer them.
In case you haven't seen any of the previous episodes, I highly recommend you put aside some time to follow Marlin's experiences from Los Angeles, CA to Laughlin, NV to Phoenix, AZ to Scottsdale, AZ to Sedona, AZ to Mesa Verde, CO to Monte Vista, CO to Denver, CO to Boulder, CO to Laramie, WY to Alliance, NE to Hot Springs, SD to Rosebud, SD. To make it easier you can even download the episodes in iPod/iPhone format.
» Archinect Travels
2 Comments
Wonderful to see a new episode!
The episodes have typically been sort of looking from outside, but this one was incredibly intimate, uncomfortably so, both the views of the building and hearing Rotondi talk about it. How often do we hear an architect speak about his fears of losing/not getting a job? Then hear users of the building say they really aren't aware of the main concepts that drove the design? It's humbling, but resonates for me - a much more honest view of how we do what we do.
On the other hand, the building itself looked like an incredibly comfortable place to be! It's always awesome to get inside a building and see some of the rooms you don't see in official photos. The overall textures, light, complexity of the whole place felt really, really good to me (from what I can tell in video).
"Buildings always fail." I feel like this should be taught in school - everything is temporary.
Marlin,
Once again, a lovely piece of work.
Perhaps the problem with the nature of the late 20th century - early 21st century individual is that, stories aren't really conveyed anymore, myths are not seen as appropriate to a culture growing and changing? Our world moves too quickly for us to care it seems, perhaps we need to slow down a little bit, sit in traffic, stopped at a green light, and imagine the world in different light.
I don't worry that buildings fail, I worry that their stories are never told, and hence never remembered.
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