Environmental Design GHM Period rooms and Pottery display

I exit the gift shop following up the "Voices of the city" exhibition to the period rooms and pottery displays.  I am saddened by the pottery displays as a dear friend of mine had a knack for pottery and was a devoted collector and enthusiast.  I observe the beautiful shapes, sizes, and colors of all the different pottery in the room.  I scan the room to look at all the jugs, pots, cups, bowls, something with a hole in it, what I must assume is an ash tray.  I do appreciate pottery and the craftsmanship it takes to make such works of art but I have no real interest in pottery.  Potting like so many other wonderful things has almost been whipped out by the invention of the machine, the sweat, heart and soul that is put into the actual pottery I think is more important to the piece that the color or shape or size.
I move away from the pottery to the period rooms and I was over taken with all the beautiful furniture.  I adore the ornate lavishly decorated rooms. The rich furniture is amazing I truly wish i had a few of those chairs to put in my parents house, of their furniture is so ugly!

Environmental Design 3 Greensboro Historical Museum Voices Exhibition

As I traveled through the lobby experiencing it much as I had the past two visits, in a mixture of awe the overall beauty and immensity, and the hideous green plastered all over the walls and floor, I am eager to begin my tour of the "voices of the city exhibit".  I walk through the art of turning clay to the rear rotunda to a dimly lite doorway where I am met with the sounds of birds chirping much as they do at my house in the morning.  I proceed into the hallway that has warm gray walls scattered with quotes and pictures and dates much in a timeline formation.  I advance to the next room filled with display cases chalked full of information, while in this room I noticed where the sounds of birds chirping was coming from.  I move to a sign in the next room with our city spelled Greensborough instead of Greensboro.  I feel compelled to explain all that there is too see but due to  the time constraints with my school schedule and work i was only able to get two hours this week in the museum.  I move through exhibit to the civil war exhibit where I take a minute to remember our fallen brethren.  To stop at the loom and take a moment to enjoy the incredible machinery that is involved in its working.  I then come to a postmark in the automotive industry, the model T Ford  a 1916 model.

Environmental Design 3 Project blog 1

I believe that my skills and I would be best suited to helping with the Industries of the blind.  I believe that my approach of simplicity and functionality will be able to relate most with what the I.O.B. hopes to accomplish with the space that we are given.  I would be able to contribute to the other projects as well but I feel that this would be the most rewarding as having a potential to actually being implemented.  I would like to help with the Greensboro Historical Museum especially with the reception desk area.  Over all I want to be among those working on the I.O.B.

Environmental Design Three GHM

Aldo Rossi

Quartier Schutzenstrasse in Berlin, Germany

Born in Milan Italy, Aldo Rossi was an Italian architect with influences from 1920s Italian modernism.  Aldo studied architecture at the Politecnico di Milano.  Rossi won the Pritzker prize for architecture in 1990.  Some of his works include the Centro direzionale, in Perugia, Italy, Ca' di Cozzi in Verona Italy,  and Quartier Schutzenstrasse in Berlin Germany.

Cabinets of Curiosity

This semester our theme for design are cabinets of curiosity.  During which we will be assisting in the design and development of a cabinet for the Weatherspoon art museum here on the campus of the University of North Carolina Greensboro.

Weatherspoon Art Museum