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Mike Jobes, Principal

The Habitat for Humanity House of the Future

January 5, 2012 – 8:30 am

It’s enlightening to compare two approaches to the same problem 50 years apart. During the 1962 World’s Fair in Seattle, housing exhibits provided a vision for the future of domestic life as exuberant modular assemblages packed with high-tech energy-intensive gadgets that did the living for you, built and powered by seemingly endless resources. Fifty years [...]

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Paint Chips

October 4, 2011 – 12:04 pm

I used to collect paint color swatches from the local home center paint color display and arrange them on the floor by color. Once I’d collected enough I’d start to tear and assemble them, setting out to take something ubiquitous and off-the-shelf and give it new meaning. I’d always admired the way Marcel Duchamp, with [...]

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Putting the Public in Public Works

September 6, 2011 – 3:58 pm

I recently watched Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1962 film Red Desert set in hyper-industrial post-World War II Ravenna, Italy. The film’s characters are placed in close proximity to the industrial machinery of the factory landscape, living, loving and losing it among the awe-inspiring factory works. This nearness to the inner workings of the industrial infrastructure in the [...]

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