getting excited about my marshall field conference project, though the head of the music dept. hasn't emailed me back yet. i'll probably just have to go over there and find the guy. no doubt he's under a lot of stress right now. today was a conference with claudia in which we spoke of the concept. lots of good ideas were thrown around. basically right now im going with fragmenting several of the walls of the current building and somehow conciously parlaying them into a transitional element to connect a big, new concert hall with the current building. maybe theyll be encased in class, all messed up and ripped apart? also, the sound studios will be where the current basement is and will continue out eastwards on the site and then sort of 'grow' up like vegetables or something, a few yards away from the existing building. we talked a lot about postdamer platz/the einstein cafe and the 6th ave projects which i dont know much about. i will write more later since now class is over - got distracted. but heres a paint tool translation of one of the concepts that came out of the conference:
