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Re-blogging a few from around the Bay Area neighborhood:
Gravel and Gold HERE
Leslie Williamson HERE
Lloyds Blog, (Costco shed for $1000. Read, big box selling little box) HERE

Shobu

One of our favorite visits in Kagoshima. Keep up the good work Shobu! Learn more about their amazing school HERE and their Nui Project HERE

People Watching

Steve Roden, Wallace Neff house, via Leslie Williamson and NY Times, HERE and HERE

Living Architecture

Green Roofing around SF with Patrick Blanc's living wall at the Drew School and Renzo Piano's Academy of Science.

On the grid, off the grid and on again from NYC to the Navarro River in Mendocino. Posts and  images to follow.

Even Arcosanti residents need a bball court... More from Gravel and Golds adventures in Arizona HERE

LB Turnaround

A quick few days in the south land in the early June gloom.

Scaling Back

Available now from Shelter Publications or through Llyod's Blog. All houses under 500 sq. feet.

Alexandre Arrechea

Lecture Tonight at SFAI 4:30 PM

Interdisciplinary artist Alexandre Arrechea was born in Cuba, and graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana. He was a member of the art collective Los Carpinteros, until he left the group in 2003 to pursue his career as a solo artist. His work often deals with loss of privacy, fragility, memory, and the failure of control and power.

Arrechea has participated in numerous group exhibitions at such venues as the Museum of Art and Design, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Shanghai Art Museum, China; P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; and Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany. He represents Cuba at the 54th Venice Biennale, 2011, and has also exhibited at the Havana Biennial 2009 and 2000; the 2005 Braziers International, Oxfordshire, England; the Venice Biennale 2005; the Liverpool Biennial 2004; the Shanghai Biennial 2002; and the Sao Paulo Biennial 2002. His work can be found in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; and Museo de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba, among others. Arrechea was recently selected to be the Spring 2013 public sculpture artist for the Park Avenue Mall Project. He lives and works in Spain.

D.I interiors

Interiors of David Irelands 500 Capp Street. Oral History HERE

In Detail

Details from throughout Japan