Joanna Newsom

I should be sleeping right now, but I listened to this CD by Joanna Newsom (Milk-Eyed Mender) and decided to look her up. I have been listening to this CD before bed off and on for the last few weeks, and I really like it. Most of the songs are just voice and harp (played by her) and I dare say her voice is something to get used to. I am not sure why it (her voice) doesn't bother me, but it doesn't. What I'm trying to say here is that I think this CD is awesome.

If you go to this link be sure to listen to "Book of Right On."

If you go to this link be sure to watch "The Sprout and the Bean."

Release Party

Hey Everyone,
Some of you have already visited the site, and were too early for the party. For those who are just arriving though, Welcome! I just sent out all those mass emails last night, so now I guess this is officially open. Please feel free to make comments (good or bad). I want to make this as good as possible.
Thanks to all.
Evan

Seeing Italy

I went to Italy in the fall of 2004. It is still the best thing I have ever done. In fact, it really was beyond words so in the spring of 2005 I made my experience into a sort of documentary movie. I do not yet know how to put the movie online, but I hope to someday. It consists of a slide-show of my photographs, music that I chose, and my narration. I talk about my experience as that of subtleties of the Italian ways, as well as the contrast between American and Italian ideals.

Thesis Studio

I have been working on thesis in studio since the end of January 2006. At this point though I don't have any finalized drawings so I am going to show a variety of things.


This site plan was basically my first sketch of the project. The brown shading shows the areas that can't be directly seen from my site. The green and red line shows the boundary that I thought I would be building in. The yellow shows that I want to have a continuum between the quad (center) and the bay (right). The arrow path shows the student path of travel between the dorms. I am still using many of these same concepts.
My current design has my building placed to the right of the library (building with the clock tower) but behind it further.

This diagram shows what my building program was at the beginning of the semester. It has changed a little. Namely, there is no longer a dining hall.



I have designed other spaces, but this is the only one modeled. It is the central space of my student center, and it is meant to work as a theater of sorts, a gathering space, and circulatory space, depending on the need.

Sustainability

I am taking a class with Patrick Charles called "Sustainable Paradigms." We study weather data and use it to aid us in energy efficient building design. We have been learning a couple of good computer programs as well. One of the programs is "Weather Tool." This one is something that anyone can fool around with. Here are some diagrams on sustainable design that are loosely base on my current thesis design.


This sketch shows a room of my building during a summer day and a winter day.

The section sketch above shows a summer day and the one below shows a summer night.

Thesis Proposal

Theses are the first few pages of my thesis document (excluding the table of contents) and they basically speak for themselves.

just a note. . .

I have lots more photograph to add. . . . please notice the links on the side to help you find stuff!

Nature (many places and times)

Here is a picture I took when I was on a hike with John. We didn't know it but we ended up hiking to the highest point in York County, Maine. Not high, but a great view. This picture is from coming down. I'm pretty sure it's an old graveyard.




Here are a few more great pictures that I took this past Fall with Sasha. We went on a hike in the woods near her house, and it was the perfect day for it!









This one was taken near Bristol Harbor in Independence Park. I'm glad the bee (?) was there.

Portland Land Use Code

The other night before going to sleep I got to thinking about learning how zoning works in Portland. As I was mulling over this I suddenly realized, "Hey! I can start right now!" I figured I could go to Portland's website, download the zoning code, and start reading it. In fact, I did almost exactly that. Here is the site:
Portland Code of Ordinances
There ended up being one small problem. Actually, 700 pages of a small problem. Anyway, I am proud of myself for finding the "ultimate source" of Portland Architectural law, but I'm not even going to attempt this thing until I can have a hard copy. When that happens, look out Portland! Here I come!

RWU Campus

Since I live at RWU I end up with a lot of decent pictures of the campus. These sunrise pictures were taken before I had slept for the night.

These other two shots are my dorm and the new architecture building.