Figure-Ground Studies:

The following people should redo their figure-ground study:

1. Charles Gilmore
2. LaSalle Tippens
3. Daniel Aghili
4. Chelsea Barnett
5. Chris Davison
6. Alex Lopez
7. Bryan Jacobsen
8. Favian Barron
9. Claire Tranter
10. Neil Jackson
11. Lindsay Akins
12. Devin Dozier
13. Erik Guaderrama
14. Trent Oatman
15. Christopher Martin

Reasons you should redo your figure-ground study:

1. Having more than the following three colors:
a. white
b. gray
c. black
*You should only have ONE shade of gray, no more, no less. And be elegant when choosing your shade of gray.
2. Using double lines where they are not appropriate.
3. Trees eating buildings or trees growing inside of buildings. Trees have a trunk and that trunk is a figure. Trees are circles, not ellipses.
4. Having a different colored line for something that's hatched is wrong. For example, if you had a circle with a black line and then hatched it gray, this is wrong. The line should be the same color as the hatched space.
5. If trees intersect then they should make one continuous form.
6. If you put topography lines in your figure ground, take them out.
7. Streets, side walks, curbs, etc. are not figures.
8. As always, don't use Photoshop. Use Illustrator.
9. There should be no text what-so-ever on your figure-ground.
10. Buildings (figures) should have sharp edges; no fillet.
11. Make sure you're printing at the right scale.
12. Fences should be dashed lines and should have an appropriate scale to them. Again, be prudent when choosing a scale.
13. When it comes to poles, be as accurate as you can about their size and do not make them black and an actual figure (a building, for example) gray. There is a hierarchy of figures.
14. There should be NO symbols on these studies. It is a figure-ground study.

Everyone is welcome to improve their figure-ground study. Do not put them in the pile. Bring your new ones on Tuesday to class. As always, if you have any questions about the assignment or your own work email me or find me so I can lead you on the right path.

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Models:

If you are going to do anything to your model you can do so now. Make sure to do it before Sunday at 12 PM. Your model must be on the 8th floor on Sunday at 12 PM.

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Tomorrow's Class:

We will meet on the 8th floor of the Architecture Building at 11:00 AM. Make sure to bring your model with you.

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Request to City GIS Office

Susan:

Thanks for your help in your email of September 12, 2006. I am teaching a class this semester in site design. We're using a location in Lubbock, the area around Burns Park just south of downtown, as a subject site to draw and study. In this work we talk a lot about what what was intended to be done, what should be, and what is actually "there" when we work on a site.

I have lived in many cities in my years, Dallas, New York, Montréal, Berlin, Dublin, Denver, Norman OK, and Lincoln, NE. LBB certainly has the best publicly accessible aerials and maps of anywhere except maybe Berlin. Over here at the college of architecture we enjoy and use your collection more than you may know.

We've been looking at the urban morphology of this "near south" neighborhood, how the city seems to have made it's first real extension south to 23rd St and west of Texas, etc. etc. We've been looking at the shifts in the right of way in J, L, and L at 23rd.

Your maps and aerials are excellent for figuring out "what's there." Is there a way to find out exactly how it was meant to be laid out short of coming in and studying each separate subdivision plat?

We do have a problem though, we don't have the ability to read dgn files here in the college. We gave up all the microstation type stuff a while back in architecture and use the dxf/dwg files these days. We're not that smart.

What I'd like to know are the centerline to centerline dimensions of the right of ways:
a) South of 23rd and running from east to west:
between Buddy Holly and Texas
between Texas and J
between J and K
between K and L
between L and M
between M and N
b) South of 23rd and running from east to west:
between Buddy Holly and Texas
between Texas and J
between J and K
between K and L
between L and M
between M and N
c) Running north to south:
between 22nd and 23rd
between 23rd and 24th
between 24th and 25th

I can get the width of the right of ways off the 1957 Sanborn Maps and Parks and Rec plans of the park.
Can you help me with these dimensions?
I have two teaching assistants, who are cc'd on this email, that can do the research if you can point us in the right direction.

Flea Market images

(B.'s images were beating up my web page so I moved the images to a link in the left column, Brian)

Sunday I went to visit with Nan and get more information about the Flea Market. She gave me a lot of things. Here's some stuff:

This is an aerial photograph of the flea market before the new Red Building was built.

This is a top view of the Flea Market before 1995.

The Flea Market under construction.

This is an Avalanche Journal news article on the Flea Market.

These are images of the indoor Flea Market before the fire in 1995.

This is a picture of Hulen Penny, the man who bought the Boys' Club and turned it into a Flea Market. He was known for always wearing overalls.

This is a picture of a man who'd park in front of the Flea Market and sell tamales without paying Hulen nor the city. According to Nan this made her father, Hulen, very mad. She calls this a "Ha-ha picture." She laughs about the situation now.

This is an Avalanche Journal news article on the fire.


These are pictures of the fire.

We'll talk further about this during class.

B.