Eric was interviewed last year as part of a documentary.

BOOM: The Sound of Eviction

Enthralled by dot-com fever and dreams of instant wealth, the nation largely ignored the disastrous housing crunch that gripped San Francisco during the internet years. Now the bubble has popped and most of the startups are gone, but the tidal wave of gentrification that came with the new industry has changed the city and its political landscape forever. This sprawling and ambitious documentary takes stock of the dot-com boom and bust and asks the question- Who benefited?

Go see the premiere of BOOM at the Roxie Theatre on November 4th and 5th, 2001.

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My heart and prayers goes out to the victims and loved ones of the tragedy of September 11th.

Additional Resources

SHELL FORMS

A student recently wrote to me asking about shell forms in Architecture. I sent her a long list of books to study, but one of them is particularly important:

Paolo Portoghesi: Nature and Architecture

The book has amazing images.

World Trade Center architect discusses buildings

When they were completed in the early 1970s, the Twin Towers of New York's World Trade Center were the tallest buildings in the world. That designation didn't last long -- Chicago's Sears Tower took the title in 1974, a year after Two World Trade Center was finished -- but the buildings' standing as a New York City landmark, anchors amid the office-tower canyons of Manhattan's financial district, remained unchallenged.

Michael Moore gives a wonderful commentary on the devastating tragedy in New York and Washington.

The death of anyone innocent, American or not, is still wrong. I hope this horror does not become an excuse for mass destruction of other innocent people. May only the guilty parties be punished.

Space data suggest cosmic laws alter as universe ages

An international team of astrophysicists has discovered that the basic laws of nature as understood today may be changing slightly as the universe ages, a surprising finding that could rewrite physics textbooks and challenge fundamental assumptions about the workings of the cosmos.