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Long ago,
returning from a fishing trip,
Bruce Gray sing-songed
as we passed the
big sawmill on I-5,
"Turning round things
into square things..." That always stuck
with
me, an apt description of the tension
between
rectilinear architectural tendencies and
more
organic forms in both building and thought.
I first heard the term "direct action" at a WTO
protest planning
meeting at which I happened
to be painted silver and a poet
named Lance
predicted the
shape of the future. It all
reminds me of Buckminster
Fuller.
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Today at Strawbale Studio,
we started digging into round
pole
construction methods.
Think Lincoln
Logs. Or maybe carrots,
if that helps to
visualize components. After almost 20
years of on-the-job practice, I'm
fairly
adept at slapping flat things
together.
While the basic framing
principles
remain the same, the details
of how
it all
fits
together are different.
...Feels like I've come full
circle.
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