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Doctor Watson Architects: AIR Grid Transnational
No full textAt a place called Saint Paul-lez-Durance in Southern France there is an enormous construction site where scientists and engineers are building a Tokamak (The word is an abbreviation for toroidal chamber with magnetic coils, it is a device that uses a powerful magnetic field to confine plasma in the shape of a torus. Tokamaks were invented in the 1950s by soviet physicists Igor Tamm and Andrei Sakharov). The project at Saint Paul-lez-Durance (otherwise known as ITER) is an International adventure tracing its roots back to the 1985 Superpower Summit held in Geneva, where the American President Ronald Regan agreed to the Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachov’s suggestion of working collectively towards the development of fusion energy for peaceful purposes. Once the ITER Tokamak is assembled it will be used to progress the scientific research, necessary if the idea of fusion energy is ever to become a reality.
Doctor Watson Architects take the circumstances of ITER as an opportunity for conducting an architectural thought experiment. We propose an additional programmatic element be added to the ITER research activities that will out last its current, strictly scientific role. To this end we propose the idea of an enduring and evolving Museum of the Radiant Future (MORF), whose major function is the redirection of attitudes away from the widespread incomprehension of science, technology and art towards understanding as a source of optimism for a heterogenous human and non-human world, rich in possibilities and active knowledge. To this end we are currently devising and constructing a psychophysical model of the ITER complex that aims to communicate its revised mode of functioning
Four unidentified men gathered around a table, Oregon, approximately 1890
No full textCaption on mount: Watson. 225 First Street. Portland, Oregon.
PH Coll 334 Watson.2The photographer is possibily Joseph E. Watson who owned a studio on First Street in Portland, Oregon between 1890-1892. There was also a studio called Watson and Woodruff in Portland that operated in 1916 which may be the photographer as well.To order a reproduction, inquire about permissions, or for information about prices see:
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Doctor Watson Architects: Corviale, Collection
No full textIt was our investigation of the 1 kilometre long housing block called Corviale (on the periphery of Rome) that led to the invention of the 'beetles' and so we tend to classify all of our beetle-based inquiries under the Corviale name, even where they have little to do with Corviale. A beetle is a kind of cross between a computer and a insect that can change colour as it changes direction in space, we often think of them as tiny flying pigments. They are barely visible to the human eye but when they change colour and direction we see them. In architecture they are useful for conducting experiments with colour mixing in virtual environments
James A Watson Scrapbook
No full textScrapbook containing memorabilia from James A Watson\u27s life and times at Lehigh Universit
Doctor Watson Architects: Bots, Collection
No full textThere is a long tradition in the history of architecture of hybridising sculpture and building, we are currently investigating the possibilities of expanding the same line of enquiry into the realm of artificial intelligence and robotics. We are not only interested in the idea of the animated building but also of the animated architect
Watson Collection
No full textThe Watson Family Collection is a collection from the early settlers of Kingsville, Oliver S. and Ella Watson who built and operated a boarding house on 5th Street. Their children worked on the railroad, joined the service, married and eventually moved to Houston and other places in Texas. The McAllister's, the Sell's, and the Bohanan's were all related by marriage to the Watson's
Elizabeth Watson to James Watson, October 29, 1861
No full textIn this letter of October 29, 1861, Elizabeth Watson writes to James Watson decsribing local conditions, including prices for corn and salt and giving details of family members and local people, including news that one has died.Oct 29 1861
North carolina Jackson Co
Dear friend and husband
it is with grate pleasure that i rite
to you to let you now that mea and my
children is well hoping these few lins
will find you in good health I have
Just red the leter that you sent mea
and was glad to her that you was alive
But you did not say whether you was well or
not But I hope you was I have red 4
leters from you and has rot you 2 and
my dear I hant forgot you for i think of
you every hour in the day and would all
most give up my life if you could bea
back at home to stay with mea and your
children for Alexand talks about you a many
atime times in our county is hard for the
poor class of people for every thing is giting
so deer that tha cant By hardly a naughf
to gan [?] an salt is from nine to ten dollars
a sack her and every other thing is proportion
thier is good crops made in our county I
think corn can bea bought at 50 cts
all through the winter and now this people
is debard [?] of halling off thir meet I dont
now how wee will git our nessaryes
for money is scerce here I have got
all of our property yet I have not sold
eny of it yet and I think that I will
keep it for i cant sell it for its
worth only Bacon or Beef catle and
I hant got eny of that so turn over
your fathers folks is all well and giting
along very well allison is a working for mea
and epects to work 10 or 12 (?) days he has left
home and expects to marry before he gos
back he is a talking of coming to you but
I think it is all a Joke ¬¬¬________ [?] is making
a good crop of corn and is milking 2 cows
thar are increesing and doing well
franklin was up a bout a week a go and
tha was all well and franklin has a fine
son miss Mckiney is deed has Bin dead some
4 weeks thir has bin several deths in our
county and her dying words was pray for
mea S I Calhoun came clare of killing
crane thir is 3 company of volenteers
made up in macon county one starts
to day thir capt is Alfred Bell and
allen amons will start before long
wea have quite wram [sic] wither her
for this time of year and the most
rain i ere saw of afall wee have
had some frost But it hanet
done now inJury thir is good crops
made in hamburg but it is to warm
and wet to gether yet I hope ther
will Bea a chang of Wether for a litle
cooler Wither would Bea the Best and
perhaps would bea helther for you
my deer I wish I could see you
Wee could have a heep of good fun
look on nex page
hold on till I git a nother lamp for my
lite is Bad har I have got more talow
and now i will rite on I would like
to have your likness But the people
ses that I have got it with mea for
thae saz that Elizabeth hamton is a young
gim James Franklins helth is a Bout
like it was When you left John T
______ [?] folks is all well an ant fany
sed to send you howdy for her F..A. Hoopers
Funeral was preecht last sabath By Corn
From Henderson so I must come
to a close By saying that I hope I will
see you When your time is out so
fare well
To James Watson
Elizabth Watson
T.A. (?) Watson
J.F. (?) Watson
E. Hamton Watson
There is howdy for mea and all of
your children
her is your shoo strings if you a git the
Doctor Watson Architects: Plasma Department, Collection
No full textOn our recent visit to the huge construction site in the south of France where scientists and engineers are building a large tokamak (ITER: https://www.iter.org) we were introduced to the specialist branch of science that takes the name of Plasma Physics. Sometimes referred to as the fifth element, plasmas occur naturally throughout the universe, but they are rare in our terrestrial environment. However, as the ITER the scientists explained, a plasma can be coaxed into existence by human ingenuity (sometimes called design). At ITER the scientists are actually in the process of designing a plasma and the tokamak is necessary as a means of testing it
Nancy Dingham Watson Correspondence
No full textEntries include a typed letter of correspondence from children\u27s author Nancy Dingham Watson on Aldren A. Watson, Illustration & Design, Putney, Vermont, stationery with a red-inked print image of a train, in reply to the Maine State Library concerning her recent book When is Tomorrow? dedicated to her father and illustrated by her husband, and visits to Vinalhaven, Maine, prompted (in part) by a seasonal allergy to ragweed, with typed correspondence from Aldren Watson discussing his father-in-law\u27s delight on reading the book, a typographical error, notice of new farm book What Does A Begin With?, and a typed letter from the Maine State Library on receipt of her book gift for the Maine Author Collection
Doctor Watson Architects: The Architecture School
No full textThis is an animation showing a strategy for an new kind of architecture school. It includes a design for a bespoke school building
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