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Monday, January 15th, 2018

A painted mural energizes a vacant lot along the malecon on Isla de Mujeres, Quintana Roo in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico, November 13th, 2017.
Over the next 50 years, landscape architects must coordinate their actions globally to fight climate change, help communities adapt to a changing world, bring artful and sustainable parks and open spaces to every community rich or poor, preserve cultural landscape heritage, and sustain all forms of life on Earth.
Source: The New Landscape Declaration: Visions For The Next 50 Years | HuffPost
Further Reading:
Videos: LAF’s Summit on Landscape Architecture and the Future, Why Become a Landscape Architect?
Seawall Mural: Pangea Seed Foundation
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Sunday, January 14th, 2018
In November 2017, I began working on geometric tiles to recreate patterns that I’ve seen online and out in the world. I especially like these hexagonal tiles. By rotating one or more tiles and repeating the basic module, a variety of patterns emerge from just one simple tile design. My studio at District Clay Center in Washington, D.C. is home base for this new work. I’m currently considering commissions for interior design projects.

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Saturday, January 13th, 2018

Excerpt from the series, Nets. Adria Pecora. 2007. Marker on vellum. 11″ x 14″.
You take delight not in a city’s seven or seventy wonders but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.
The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.
Source: Italo Calvino – Invisible Cities
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Wednesday, August 2nd, 2017
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Wednesday, August 2nd, 2017
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Wednesday, August 2nd, 2017
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Wednesday, August 2nd, 2017
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Wednesday, August 2nd, 2017
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Wednesday, August 2nd, 2017
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Monday, July 31st, 2017
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Thursday, July 27th, 2017
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Thursday, July 27th, 2017
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Thursday, July 27th, 2017
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Thursday, July 27th, 2017
These are the raw clay samples of the spice markers that I’m hoping to complete in a glaze firing this summer, August 2017. Hopefully some of the original participants can be present to join in the glaze application.
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2017
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2017
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2017
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2017
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Saturday, October 13th, 2012

FCA-Studio CONTACT
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Wednesday, October 10th, 2012
SuperStarTickets.com: Website redesign, corportate branding and promotional campaign
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Thursday, September 27th, 2012

2012 Super Mama Djombo Tour Poster
Download a PDF version of the 2012 Super Mama Djombo Tour Poster.
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Monday, September 10th, 2012
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Friday, January 13th, 2012
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Thursday, January 12th, 2012

Harmonica Stickers 1″x3″, US Embassy in Dakar, Cobiana Communications & Culture
Cobiana Communications & Culture received a Fulbright grant from the U.S. Department of State to produce a three-month artist residency program in 2012. The artist residency will help develop a new national “horn section” of willing saxophonists and trumpeters, conduct workshops in jazz and harmonica and stage performances that will highlight the results of this intensive instruction and collaboration. This effort will reinforce the national music of Guinea-Bissau, while building both technical skills and familiarity with the diversity of American cultural identities.
Some 250 harmonicas will be gifted to children as part of the harmonica workshops. FCA-Studio provided a 1″x 3″ format label to fit on the Hohner Bluesband harmonicas. The color is PANTONE 185 M printed on silver foil.
Special thanks to Hohner for the deep discount given on the harmonicas, and to the U.S. Department of State for making the residency a reality.
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Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012

Phase 3: Water park
- Phase 1: Collaborate with the Alcaldía of Puerto de La Libertad, El Salvador to build a futbol court with a viewing platform overlooking recreational areas and beaches of Pureto de La Libertad. Clean up the garbage dumps on the hillsides and perimeter of the landholding. Initiate an awareness campaign for the city’s recycling program.
- Phase 2: Construct a perimeter wall to protect the ecology of the hillside and ensure the safety of visitors. Initiate a tree planting campaign in Puerto de La Libertad.
- Phase 3: Construct a Water park within the perimeter that is an eco-friendly and attractive tourist destination. Begin a water treatment campaign in Puerto de La Libertad.
- Phase 4: Construct low impact habitation using bioconstruction methods to accommodate visitors.
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Saturday, December 31st, 2011
Proyecto ROCAMAR met with town leaders to discuss the removal of garbage dumps. We view designs and take a tour of sites for a new recreation area.
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Monday, December 19th, 2011

Homeless World Cup Legacy Center.
The first collaborative effort of Proyecto ROCAMAR is with the Alcaldía of Puerto de La Libertad, El Salvador.
December 19th, 2011, Proyecto ROCAMAR met with concejales of Puerto de La Libertad to discuss how to clean up the makeshift garbage dumps on hillsides above the city’s main waterflow (la quebrada). The group of concejales also viewed the landholding and possible sites to be given for public use and construction of a soccer court. In my search for examples of green recreational areas, I came across the Homeless World Cup Legacy Center, which I presented as a possible design. The project is compelling for it’s multipurpose approach in integrating recreation, tourism and green consciousness. We would like to achieve the same goals in the design for the hillside soccer court.
The current leadership in Puerto de la Libertad is in favor of development for youth recreation and tourism. The two concerns go hand in hand. Supplying the community with places for youthful diversion helps redirect their energy away from risk factors and toward positive activity. Increasing the general safety and healthiness of residents increases the likelihood that tourists will visit and stay in the city longer. City leadership is invested in a rising tourism sector. The current optimism is due in part to El Salvador’s selection to receive a second Millennium Challenge Corporation grant. MCC provides well-performing countries with large-scale grants to fund country-led solutions for reducing poverty through sustainable economic growth. El Salvador has used the first grant to develop its North Zone by organizing an economic corridor that produces goods and services, food products and tourism services integrated with the rest of the country, a skilled workforce and high productivity. For the next Fomilenio, the Salvadoran government has earmarked the funds to develop the coastal area of the country, which has begun to generate high expectations in the tourism sector. Also of note is El Salvador’s outstanding performance in the 2011 Beach Soccer World Cup. The success of the team, made up of rural fishermen, has also sparked the hearts of Salvadorans and increased league participation throughout the country.
A multipurpose and integrated design approach is ideal for the soccer court on the hillside above La Libertad. Sitting areas, changing rooms, spaces for cultural activities, viewing platforms, and playing fields will be inviting and friendly. The site’s architecture has the potential to accommodate and attract international visitors. The location will be central and accessible to the community that it serves. Using recycled materials in the construction and providing receptacles to separate waste materials will help establish recycling as another viable benefit to the local economy.
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Friday, September 17th, 2010
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Friday, August 20th, 2010
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Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
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