San Juan, Puerto Rico, North America
San Juan, officially Municipio de la Ciudad Capital San Juan Bautista (Municipality of the Capital City, Saint John the Baptist), is the capital and most populous municipality in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 395,326 making it the 46th-largest city under the jurisdiction of the United States. San Juan was founded by Spanish colonists in 1521, who called it Ciudad de Puerto Rico (Rich Port City). Puerto Rico's capital is the second oldest European-established capital city in the Americas, after Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic. Several historical buildings are located in San Juan; among the most notable are the city's former defensive forts, Fort San Felipe del Morro and Fort San Cristóbal, and La Fortaleza, the oldest executive mansion in continuous use in the Americas. Today, San Juan is one of Puerto Rico's most important seaports,[8] and is the island's manufacturing[citation needed], financial, cultural, and tourism center. The population of the Metropolitan Statistical Area, including San Juan and the municipalities of Bayamón, Guaynabo, Cataño, Canóvanas, Caguas, Toa Alta, Toa Baja, Carolina and Trujillo Alto, is about 2 million inhabitants; thus, about half the population of Puerto Rico now lives and works in this area. San Juan is also a principal city of the San Juan-Caguas-Fajardo Combined Statistical Area. The city has been the host of numerous important events within the sports community, including the 1979 Pan American Games, 1966 Central American and Caribbean Games, events of the 2006, 2009 and 2013 World Baseball Classics, the Caribbean Series and the Special Olympics and MLB San Juan Series in 2010. San Juan is cataloged as a global city, according to the Globalization and World Cities Research Network studies from the Loughborough University in London. Which classifies San Juan as Beta city. Technological advances after World War II in the development of the airliner, coupled with the island's climate and natural setting, have transformed San Juan into the springboard for tourism around the island, and has made the rest of the Caribbean known throughout the world during the last fifty years. Today the capital features numerous hotels, museums, historical buildings, restaurants, beaches and shopping centers. In San Juan there are numerous tourist attractions, including: Old San Juan, Ocean Park, Isla Verde and Condado. Places and monuments emphasized in tourism campaigns include: Old San Juan, promoting the historic nature of its colonial buildings and narrow streets covered by adoquine, a blue stone cast from furnace slag; they were brought over as ballast on Spanish ships. This includes the city's ancient defensive wall and forts, most notably El Morro and the Castle of San Cristóbal. On January 23, 1984 both of these edifices were catalogued as being part of humanity's cultural patrimony. The numerous restaurants and art galleries in the zone are frequently visited by tourists. The local universities are promoted as historic places, most notably the campus of University of Puerto Rico located in Río Piedras, which is the oldest university on the island being founded in 1903. San Juan is the birthplace of numerous artists and musicians, locally known as Sanjuaneros, who have significantly influenced Puerto Rican culture. During the 20th century, the musical aspect of the city was influenced by performers including Afro-Caribbean dancer and choreographer Sylvia del Villard and José Enrique Pedreira who became a renowned composer of Puerto Rican Danzas. International musicians such as renowned opera singer Justino Díaz and Grammy Award winners Ramón Ayala (Daddy Yankee) and Ricky Martin were born in the city. Other notable residents include writers Giannina Braschi and Tomas Blanco, award-winning actors Raúl Juliá and Benicio del Toro, and comedian José Miguel Agrelot. Rafael Cordero (1790--1868), was influential in the development of Puerto Rican education and is renowned as The Father of Public Education in Puerto Rico. The city is also the home of numerous contemporary and classic art museums. The Puerto Rico Arts Museum owns the largest collection of contemporary art in Puerto Rico, housing over 1,100 permanent art pieces and displaying numerous temporary exhibitions containing artwork from various locations through Latin America. The Puerto Rico Museum of Contemporary Art, located in Santurce, specializes in contemporary artwork from Latin America and the Caribbean. The paintings displayed in the permanent exhibition are either acquired by the museum's administrative personnel or donated by artists and collectors.
Perils For Pedestrians 135: California
0:25 --Deb Hubsmith talks about Safe Routes To School programs.
11:21 --We travel to Berkeley to look at environmental health and walking.
17:19 --We visit Prevention Institute and find that walkable environments can be part of quality disease prevention.
24:51 --We learn about Pedestrian Safety Action Plans.
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Nevada Weekly, University of Nevada, Reno, May 27, 1979
Weekly local program that focuses on Northern Nevada and University topics. This episode begins with footage from a promotional film for the University of Nevada, Reno (U.N.R.) entitled The U.N.R. Experience. The film covers topics related to U.N.R. including U.N.R. athletics, winter sports in the Reno/Tahoe area, different majors offered at U.N.R., Mackay Week, the Student Spring Rodeo, and commencement. Next is a story about the land that would eventually become Rancho San Rafael Regional Park and the immediate and future plans for developing the park.
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@00:28:28 Closing credits
Riverside’s 2018 Mayor’s State of the City Address
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Open House Lecture: Jeanne Gang, “Thinking Through Practice and Research”
American architect and MacArthur Fellow Jeanne Gang, FAIA, FRIBA, is the founding principal of Studio Gang, an architecture and urban design practice with offices in Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Chevalier de l’Ordre national de la Légion d’honneur, Jeanne is internationally renowned for a design process that foregrounds the relationships between individuals, communities, and environments. Her diverse body of work spans scales and typologies, expanding beyond architecture’s conventional boundaries to pursuits ranging from the development of stronger materials to fostering stronger communities. Her approach has resulted in some of today’s most compelling architecture, including Aqua Tower, the Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership, and Writers Theatre. She is currently designing major projects throughout the Americas and Europe, including the Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation at the American Museum of Natural History in New York; a unified campus for California College of the Arts in San Francisco; and the new United States Embassy in Brasilia, Brazil.
A recipient of the 2013 National Design Award (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum), Jeanne was named the 2016 Architect of the Year by the Architectural Review. In 2017, she was honored with the Louis I. Kahn Memorial Award and made an honorary fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. Widely published and acclaimed, her work has been exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale, Chicago Architecture Biennial, Museum of Modern Art, and Art Institute of Chicago. She is the author of Reveal, the first volume on Studio Gang’s work and process, and Reverse Effect: Renewing Chicago’s Waterways, which envisions a radically greener future for the Chicago River.
Jeanne is a distinguished alumna of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where she was recently appointed Professor in Practice. Her GSD studios have previously explored the multivalent potential of materiality. This semester she is working with students to explore strategies for rebuilding community infrastructure in the Caribbean Islands following Hurricanes Irma and Maria. Jeanne lectures frequently throughout the world and serves on various civic and design-focused committees and advisory groups.
Save Gabe's Tower
SAVE GABE'S |
Gabe's Tower (1963), in Owensboro, Ky., was designed by Owensboro architect R. Ben Johnson (1921--2009) for restaurateur and local legend Gabe Fiorella, Sr., (1900--1977).
With its groovy cylindrical form, its pastel-panelled façade, its 12th-floor restaurant and cocktail lounge, and its top-floor roof garden complete with swimming pool and retractable glass roof, this 13-story tower --- originally, Gabe's Motor Inn — was the swingingest place in town, for most of the 1960s and '70s. When it opened in November 1963, it was the tallest building in Kentucky, west of Louisville.
Today, Gabe's Tower is one of the earliest surviving examples of the mid-century commercial cylinders that were built in the United States, starting with the Capitol Records Tower (1956) in Los Angeles (which was the first commercial building to feature a circular plan).
But the building has been neglected for years, and now Owensboro's mayor is pushing to demolish it — even though the City's own September 2010 inspection found the building to be structurally sound.
In August 2012, Los Angeles architect and writer James Black, AIA --- creator of The Lower Modernisms project --- called Gabe's Tower a righteous work of Modernism.
An effort to see this one-of-a-kind tower restored and preserved as the economically vital symbol and icon of Owensboro that it was in the 1960s and '70s has attracted the early support of leaders from the Recent Past Preservation Network (RPPN), Preservation Kentucky, the Society for Commercial Archeology and the Los Angeles Conservancy Modern Committee.
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Ilona Katzew: Sense of Mission, Aesthetic Sense: Why Build a Collection of Spanish Colonial Art?
May 16, 2014
Ilona Katzew, Curator and Department Head, Latin American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, presents her lecture Sense of Mission, Aesthetic Sense: Why Build a Collection of Spanish Colonial Art? during a two-day symposium titled 'The Americas Revealed, Collecting Colonial and Modern Latin American Art in the United States.' This event was organized by the Center for the History of Collecting at The Frick Collection.
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Jack Parsons (rocket engineer) | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:03:56 1 Biography
00:04:05 1.1 Early life: 1914–34
00:10:04 1.2 GALCIT Rocket Research Group and the Kynette trial: 1934–38
00:18:12 1.3 Embracing Thelema; advancing JATO and foundation of Aerojet: 1939–42
00:31:02 1.4 Foundation of JPL and leading the Agape Lodge: 1942–44
00:40:48 1.5 L. Ron Hubbard and the Babalon Working: 1945–46
00:50:10 1.6 Work for Israelis and espionage accusations: 1946–52
01:00:21 1.7 Death: 1952
01:04:46 2 Personal life
01:04:55 2.1 Personality
01:06:47 2.2 Professional associations
01:07:20 3 Philosophy
01:07:29 3.1 Religious beliefs
01:10:52 3.2 Politics
01:15:47 4 Legacy and influence
01:24:16 5 Patents
01:24:24 6 See also
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John Whiteside Jack Parsons (born Marvel Whiteside Parsons; October 2, 1914 – June 17, 1952) was an American rocket engineer and rocket propulsion researcher, chemist, and Thelemite occultist. Associated with the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Parsons was one of the principal founders of both the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the Aerojet Engineering Corporation. He invented the first rocket engine to use a castable, composite rocket propellant, and pioneered the advancement of both liquid-fuel and solid-fuel rockets.
Born in Los Angeles, Parsons was raised by a wealthy family on Orange Grove Avenue in Pasadena. Inspired by science fiction literature, he developed an interest in rocketry in his childhood and in 1928 began amateur rocket experiments with school friend Ed Forman. He dropped out of Pasadena Junior College and Stanford University due to financial difficulties during the Great Depression, and in 1934 he united with Forman and graduate student Frank Malina to form the Caltech-affiliated Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory (GALCIT) Rocket Research Group, supported by GALCIT chairman Theodore von Kármán. In 1939 the GALCIT Group gained funding from the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to work on Jet-Assisted Take Off (JATO) for the U.S. military. Following American entry into World War II, in 1942 they founded Aerojet to develop and sell their JATO technology; the GALCIT Group became JPL in 1943.
After a brief involvement with Marxism in 1939, Parsons converted to Thelema, the English occultist Aleister Crowley's new religious movement. In 1941, alongside his first wife Helen Northrup, Parsons joined the Agape Lodge, the Californian branch of the Thelemite Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.). At Crowley's bidding, he replaced Wilfred Talbot Smith as its leader in 1942 and ran the Lodge from his mansion on Orange Grove Avenue. Parsons was expelled from JPL and Aerojet in 1944 due to the Lodge's infamous reputation, along with his hazardous workplace conduct.
In 1945 Parsons separated from Helen after having an affair with her sister Sara; when Sara left him for L. Ron Hubbard, he conducted the Babalon Working, a series of rituals designed to invoke the Thelemic goddess Babalon to Earth. He and Hubbard continued the procedure with Marjorie Cameron, whom Parsons married in 1946. After Hubbard and Sara defrauded him of his life savings, Parsons resigned from the O.T.O. and went through various jobs while acting as a consultant for the Israeli rocket program. Amid the climate of McCarthyism, he was accused of espionage and left unable to work in rocketry. In 1952 Parsons died at the age of 37 in a home laboratory explosion that attracted national media attention; the police ruled it an accident, but many associates suspected suicide or murder.
Parsons' occult and libertarian writings were published posthumously, with Western esoteric and countercultural circles citing him as one of the most significant figures in propagating Thelema across North America. Although academ ...
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Cities and Technology Debate Series: The Driverless City and the Future of Streets
Panelists:
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Robin Chase (Zipcar)
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Hip Hop Culture and its Visual Impact in Mexico. October 2018 talk with Maurice Rafael Magaña
Centering on the visual aspects of music culture, Maurice Rafael Magaña discusses the role of urban youth culture in shaping collective identity, particularly where migration, cross-culture pollination and public artwork are involved. In highlighting the perhaps surprising exchange between the Los Angeles hip hop scene and youth activists in Oaxaca, Mexico, he illustrates not only the communicative power of art in public spaces, but also the ways in which youth culture, art, and migration can intersect to shape collective identities and community histories of struggle.
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Randall Korman: Facade: Missing in Action
Architecture Spring 2018 Lecture Series - January 30, 2018 in Slocum Hall.
Professor Korman joined the Syracuse Architecture faculty in 1977, and, over the next forty years, he became one of the school’s most important and influential administrators and faculty members. Perhaps his greatest contribution, however, is the role he played and continues to play in shaping the educational experience of the several hundred architecture students fortunate enough to have been and to be in his studio courses and his thesis advisees.
“Historically, the rhetoric of architecture has centered largely on the phenomenon of the façade. As the principal surface of mediation, contextualization and representation, the facade carries the lion’s share of responsibility for containing the internal environment and confronting the outer world, often doing this across a very thin layer. As a result, the contemporary envelope can be one of the most complex and multidisciplinary of all components of a building.
The façade is the first surface one encounters when approaching a building and the last when departing. It provides the representative image for all architecture and is how we typically recall a structure. It has the unique capacity to embody the idea of the building as a whole and is the principal instrument by which the architect shapes the observer’s impression of it. Very simply, when we think of a building we usually first think of its façade.
And yet, the architectural façade also has been the most neglected building component within the various discourses of the discipline. With the dramatic development of sophisticated systems of enclosure, significant advances in materials technology, and the impact of parametric design, there has been a corresponding increase in the number of books and articles that deal with the technological and performative aspects of the building envelope. But, curiously, very few discuss the façade as an instrument of the culture and principal engine of the building’s rhetoric. This component of contemporary architectural discourse seems to be largely missing, begging the question: How is it that the most conspicuous part of any building is conspicuously absent from our considered reflection?
For the past 25 years I have been addressing these matters through my research, teaching, writing and lecturing. My lead-off presentation will speak to some of the issues attending to the production of the modern façade. Entitled ‘Façade: Missing in Action,’ the principal thesis of my talk is that the profession’s current preoccupation with parametricism, blob architecture and minimalism has resulted in a shift away from the historic traditions of creating ‘face’ and the defining urban space in place of creating iconic structures and exotic ‘skins.’ The result has been the privileging of the individual building’s identity over the collective responsibility to create public space, begging the question: ‘What is the future of urban space?’
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