New construction 2,300 sf home + ADU for a family to be built on a vacant lot in Carlsbad, CA, USA.
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Drone video and still photography by MLA General Contractor, Inc. Matthew Amos pilot. https://www.mlacontractor.com
Music and video production by Mark A Silva Architect
Z House + Winery Construction Update /
The Structure Of Flowers - Tulips /
Corona House /
Ocean view La Jolla Reinvention. Soon to be Permitted, construction start beginning of 2023. Click images to enlarge.
Renderings by McCullough Landscape Architecture
Fossil Canyon Pre-Run /
Taco got a little exercise on this Thanksgiving Day
Another Visit At Arcosanti /
A powerful image of a man with a powerful determination to serve mankind. Photo taken at Cosanti, a sister site.
Paolo Soleri was a visionary. His concepts from the 1950s which he worked toward his entire life, are as valid now as ever. Arcology - the blending of architecture and ecology as a way for mankind to move into the future in harmony with nature, and with each other. With his own hands, and with apprentices, he started building the first prototype, Arcosanti in 1970. His vision of mega-cities where the personal automobile is not needed, and all needs are obtained locally, is I believe how we are going to have to end up, eventually. He was just way ahead of his time, and the idea just too big to fit into the corporate for profit world we live in. Click his name above to learn more about this pivotal figure in 20th century architecture, and one who should have been taken seriously, but now I think the time is more than ripe for his concepts to be looked at much more carefully.
Peeps working in the ceramics studio, other studio images are of the metallurgy studio.
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Stargazer Lilys /
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A Sunflower /
A Few Flowers /
That Stair /
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Flower Shoot /
Bought some flowers yesterday, shot them in my studio today.
First Desert Ride of the Season /
My rides in the desert have become nearly sacred to me. The beauty of the desert, and planet Earth as a whole, makes me thankful to be alive to experience it. Monarch butterflies traveling with me in large numbers, westward. Feeling as one with the planet is the best feeling.
My place
Flow
The machines that carriy me
Super green October
Beautiful geology
Mud crackle
Wonder where Man’s first idea of pottery came from…
A still of the still
No power generating today
Each of these are using power, just sitting there
FutureHaus /
FutureHaus - Architectural sculpture. Art you live in. Custom Certified Passive House design for ocean view acreage high atop San Marcos, CA, USA. Incorporating a rotunda that’s a calendar time piece, southern exposure protection, use of on-site stone, rainwater collection, 100% solar and a greenhouse. True Organic Architecture borne of the site, it’s relationship to the sun and breezes, the views, and the owner’s needs and desires. Colonizing Earth, in a responsible and artful way.
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Experience the construction site with me.
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Wet Desert - Exploring In My Explorer /
The desert and surrounding mountains are even more beautiful when soaking wet. Photos from the morning after Hurricane Kay had her way with the countryside.
