Kelley and I had previously designed and installed a floor make-over at the food services area (cafeteria, etc…) at The University of California, Berkeley. This job was a challenge, as we endeavored to create a transparent make-over. The re-finished slab was a testament to it’s history, warts and all! There was no hiding of spalls or re-filled trenches…
July 2010 Vol. 10 No. 5
This column has little to do with discussions of intuitive freestyle art versus disciplined mechanical graphics, or with criticism of superfluous decoration as contrasted with really spare concrete – my normal “literary” territory. It’s a column about me and a museum. It’s a tale of two topping slabs.
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by Marley Porter, Principal, Living Architecture
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McGee Church, Mississippi... bags of concrete, some corrugated metal and some pipe... by architect, Samuel "Sambo" Mockbee
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