Visualizing the LA Aqueduct
My article, Visualizing Water Infrastructure with Sankey Maps: a Case Study of Mapping the Los Angeles Aqueduct, California, was just published in Journal of Maps!!! In it, I dive deep into the […]
LA H20 Cycle Sources
Los Angeles Water Cycle The water supply for the City of Los Angeles is an intertwined mix of imported and local water. This Sankey Diagram reveals critical opportunities to improve […]
Eidetic Videos 2016
Final student videos from my spring LA303L Studio are here! Check out the awesome eidetic video montages featuring student’s dust mitigation projects for Owens Lake that were created using parametric design […]
Jennifer Little’s 100 Years of Dust
Several talented photographers have brought their lenses to Owens Lake and created exhibit worthy images such as David Maisel, Robin Black, and my After the Aqueduct compatriot Chad Ress. Joining this pantheon is Jennifer […]
1915 Impact of LAA on Owens Lake Soda Industry
After the 1916 Complete Report on the Construction of the LA Aqueduct, Charles Lee’s 1915 Report on Hydrology of Owens Lake Basin & the Natural Soda Ash Industry as Affected by the Los Angeles Aqueduct Diversion [17mb […]
Cinematic Owens Lake 2016
Student generated videos by by LA303L Spring 2016 #CPPLA
Landscape Parametric Design in Owens Valley
Voronoi Diagram and parametric tessellation. I should keep learning Rhino and Grasshopper. A ZA!
Landscape Parametric Design
The first chance for me to apply the basic parametric design in landscape architecture. There is a long way to go. A Za A Za Fighting!
Pressing the Valley
To help control the PM-10 pollution of Owen’s Valley, my partner Benjamin and I provided a plan that will help control the dust through the work of a grasshopper script […]
Often Overlooked
Exploring the Owen’s Valley brought a particular place that is often overlooked by many travelers to one’s acknowledgement. Eidetic videos helped student’s become more of aware of the feel, emotion and […]
Exploring Owen’s Valley
When first arriving to Owen’s Valley, I really did not know what to expect of this place. Year after year, passing along the 395 Hwy for family vacations, I have […]
Wind Impressions
As we created abstract markings and hatches from our wind drawings, we were to explore how to make a machine that can make markings and drawings that were enforced by […]
An Ecological Mesh
Mapping alignments that were interconnected and adjacent to the lake revealed the physical existing conditions of the lake and influenced the conditions of proposed earthwork patterns. The selection of the […]
Capturing Wind
Translation is an exercise in abstraction. This series of wind drawings attempts to capture the multi-layered nature of wind patterns across the Owens Valley landscape using mylar paper and audio-recordings […]
The Practicality of Designing Something Completely Impractical
From the beginning, Barry’s approach to the class made me somewhat uncomfortable; the idea of designing for a future scenario, and not getting caught up in the constraints of today. […]
Notes From A Resource Colony II
In a way I can’t decide if the resource colony is a more benign form of colonialism or a more offensive one. European colonialism in Africa, Asia, and Latin America […]
Final thoughts for Owens Lake project and course
As Project 4 was coming to end we were finally seeing how all the assignments were coming together. How all the phases we had done before added to our final […]
Alluring Parametrics
For our final project, we gathered all of our information and created variables from them which we put into a Rhinoceros 5 plugin called Grasshopper. Working with parameters and components, […]
Journey To Owens Valley
During our fourth week of the quarter, our studio packed our bags and traveled to the Owens Valley. We brought along our basic survival gear such as food and tents, […]
Sculpting With Clay
Along with the previous exercises, our first real attempt on creating patterns in the landscape was with the use of clay. We were instructed to envision our sculpting tools as […]
Aqueduct Futures 
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