Recycling with Jennifer Siegal: One Person´s Trash Is Another Person´s Treasure

By necessity, Jennifer Siegal was ahead of her time while an architect masters student at SCI-ARC (Southern California Institute of Architecture) in 1994. She and her partner, Todd Erlandson, had to make a full scale construction project. "We were students and had no money and to keep the budget really low we looked for salvaged materials like old shipping crates, old glass window panes and recast door handles." Their 8´ x 8´ building was so successful that Evan Kleinman, host of Good Food on KCRW and owner of Angeli Caffe on Melrose Avenue, purchased it to turn into an outdoor part of her restaurant that she had at the school at the time.

The building also caught the eye of an administrator at Woodbury University in Burbank where Jennifer became an inaugural Julius Shulman Institute Fellow. She still teaches, now at USC, a course sharing her innovative approaches to architecture. She first took students to Tecate Mexico to look at examples of "colour" architecture, an ad hoc approach that involves using found objects and elements but putting them together in an aesthetically pleasing manner. "The recycling component was present in all of my work at that time for economic reasons and also I was intrigued by the concept of rethinking materiality," she says.
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Where in Venice Beach is Jim Morrison's House? by Paul Tanck

"Interesting guy contacted me - he was in Venice in '65 and is interested in the Beats.  Also asked about Jim Morrison's home in Venice....?  Pretty sure there were several places where he was known to have lived.  Gave him a link to your site, but where do we know for sure that Morrison lived?"
-T

Ah, that Todd. Always up for some kind of Venice what-ho! So, due to my recent professional legal accomplishments, I feel I wanted to acknowledge and accept the challenge of this inquiry, and try to answer the proposition as best I could. Our initial email communication followed:

"Word is he lived on the roof of "the morrison" apartment bldg at the s.e. corner of westminster and speedway, during the summer of '65 (i think) when he was taking acid on a daily basis, and turned from a mini-blimp into the sexy lion he became famous for, before returning to his blimp status and then dying. i'll do some more checking..."
-P
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Venice Historical Society - August 12th


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Venice Art Crawl - August 19th


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