Notes from Texas Architect PubCom retreat/advance in LA: the Bradbury building, Eameses and Ackermans, Vince Skelly at Craft Contemporary, the flower district, the faux fur district, how to dress for a funicular, aguas frescas, chaos and continuity, shared references, unshared references, the difference between taste and sabor, color and the dangerous presumption of neutrality, some hikes in the fire-scarred hills, poppies in bloom, xoxoxoxoxoxo.
And some head scratchers (I think not literal, but maybe that second one?) from the tool collection at the National Museum of American History, which includes a staggering number of bed keys.
In this issue of @archpaper , a story about facing the river. Hats off to all the good people mentioned, and thanks to @yhprumkcaj for the assignment.
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In the early hours of July 4, when the riverbanks were crowded with vacationers and campers, a stalled tropical storm system dumped months’ worth of rain on Central Texas in a few short hours. The Guadalupe River’s levels rose 26 feet within 45 minutes near Kerrville. Witnesses described a wall of water that tore houses from their foundations, swept RVs and Ford F-250 trucks far downstream, and left survivors clinging to trees.
In the aftermath of the floods, area residents and government officials are talking about what needs to change: flood warning systems, flood maps, and flood insurance.
In Kerrville and the surrounding towns, there’s also another conversation underway. Some community members are suggesting that the most impactful change might be a slow one; not federal or state funded, not the kind of large-scale infrastructure projects that reshaped Central Texas a hundred years ago, not 21st-century technology, but rather, the steady work of learning how to live with the river all over again.
Words: Jessie Temple (@outertemple )
Images: Leonid Furmansky (@_leonidfurmansky )
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