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12.18.2009
12.08.2009
What Are You Thinking For 2010?
The whole world is in discussion about global warming at an international conference in Copenhagen, Denmark: The 15th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) this month. One of the aims of this is to embark on a new climate change treaty. Debates arise due to the disparate economic situations...
11.22.2009
After The Disaster: 6 Things To Do Immediately Following A Flood
(Taken from Restoration Industry Association)The First 24 Hours is critical...1. Get your family some place safe and secure.2. Contact the Red Cross or your local chapter--they can supply temporary housing, clothing, food medications, etc.3. Do not re-enter the building until declared safe by an emergency...
10.19.2009
Calm After The Storm: 3 Things To Check If Your House Was Flooded
If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm. -Frank LaneI woke up in the middle of the night to the drumming beat of torrential downpour, as I huddled in a red plush sleeping bag. That was my first night experience under a lightless/heatless canvass shelter during the monsoon season...
9.26.2009
Real Effects of Global Warming: An SOS
If you thought Katrina was bad, see what Ketsana (Typhoon Ondoy) and recently, Parma, did.Katrina devastated the city of New Orleans, LA at the end of August 2005.http://liraluis.blogspot.com/2009/03/make-it-wright.html This year 2009 at the end of September, a strong typhoon Ketsana, locally named...
8.26.2009
Sustainable Urban Growth
This year my home city celebrates the 100th year Anniversary of the Plan of Chicago, also known as the Burnham Plan. These two pavilions represent the audacity of this urban plan conceived by Daniel Burnham in 1909.(photo by Lira Luis)(photo by Lira Lui...
7.01.2009
LEEDing Change Across the Globe
This Nation's movers-and-shakers recently joined me in a roundtable discussion about the Philippine environment and the important role that architects play:Amado DeJesus, FUAP (Philippine Inquirer Newspaper columnist and Green Architecture Movement Founder)Felino "Jun" Palafox, FUAP (Palafox Assoc....
6.21.2009
A Design Tribute
"I’m not an abstractionist. I’m not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I’m interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on."-Mark Rothko As I scrolled through my text messages on my phone this morning, I saw a message I sent to my...
5.30.2009
My father, THE COLONEL
Today I lost someone who is instrumental to me becoming "the First Filipino Protege at Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin since 1932". A great and self-sacrificing man who gave this opportunity to me even when money was tight. Every project I design from this day until I can no longer design, I dedicate...
5.09.2009
50th Anniversary of Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum
As a former Master of Architecture apprentice at Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin, I'd like to re-post a Press Release from the Taliesin Preservation Commission and Guggenheim Museum website in celebration of the iconic building's 50th anniversary with a retrospective opening on May 15, 2009:FRANK LLOYD...
4.29.2009
What has the AIA done for me lately?
Tomorrow will be the commencement of the 2009 AIA National Convention and will be culminating on Saturday, May 2, 2009. This year's host city is San Francisco.With 80,000 full AIA members strong, the American Institute of Architects is probably one of the "leading professional membership associations...
3.22.2009
Make It Wright
My undergrad school days at the University of Santo Tomas' College of Architecture were marked by memories of crossing waist-deep flooded streets of Espana Avenue while protecting my T-square and rolled-up drawings from getting wet. This flood-prone street has gained that reputation specially during...
1.10.2009
New Year's Resolutions
Every once in a while, I get comments in my blog and my thoughts on how architecture meets everyday life that are so enraged, to the point of tearing not just into the content of blog, but me, personally. These are the realities of voicing an opinion on your blog and surely opens up comment-heckling...
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