DRESSING ROOM. From her dim crimson cellar Lenina Crowne shot up seventeen stories, turned to the right as she stepped out of the lift, walked down a long corridor, and opening the door marked GIRLS' DRESSING ROOM, plunged into a deafening chaos of arms and bosoms and underclothing. Torrents of hot water were splashing into or gurgling out of a hundred baths. Rumbling and hissing, eighty vibro-vacuum massage machines were simultaneously kneading and sucking the firm and sunburnt flesh of eighty superb female specimens. Everyone was talking at the top of her voice. A Synthetic Music machine was warbling out a super-coronet solo.
-- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
(excerpt appeared in Rem Koolhaas's S, M, L, XL)
elcome to Limited Production, an online chronological survey of student projects completed as an undergraduate of architecture at Cal, as well as some graduate and professional projects.
Thanks for being patient after all these years of waiting for a real, substantial update of this site.
This edition represents the first major revision of these pages since the site was inaugurated way back in winter, 1995.
Since I intend to update these pages whenever I have time (yeah, right), be sure to come back here and check out the newer bullshit.
While you're here, you may also want to stop by my architecture and design page which provides links galore to anything that has to do with these always sublime concerns.
he projects shown here don't have much in common since they're the cumulative result of my trying to figure out what the hell I'm doing during all the years of being in school.
However, they all somehow reflect my passion for urban environments. I enjoy exciting, unusual, and perhaps even challenging built environments (tempered by responsible 'good urbanism' and sustainable development, of course) which reflect or capture the dynamic energy of cities and the diversity of their populations.
I like places where people are encouraged to interact with each other while having fun.
I appreciate architecture that raises issues and provokes discussion.
Naturally, I'm always interested in how we can build and foster these kinds of places, as well as improve existing urban environments in general.
Since we really can't afford (economically, socially, or ecologically) to build on new, virgin, undeveloped lands anymore, we must look back toward our cities and work with what we've got.
Like it or not, the cities are where our future lies. We have to make density work.
To make a long story short, sprawl can ultimately lead to social disintegration and irreparable environmental degradation. Besides, working on infill and redevelopment projects are probably much more interesting and rewarding challenges.
inally, why an online portfolio?
Unlike a formal portfolio, I can put whatever I want here, as well as be as candid, impertinent, and irreverent (or indulgent) as I want to be.
Not only can I include study models and various rejected schemes which most people would not see otherwise, but I can also casually talk about how I really feel about my projects and their concepts, if any.
I can discuss at length the design processes. I can vent and bitch. This site is also a reaction of sorts.
These days I'm just so fucking sick of the rampant proliferation of pretentious, fancy artsy-fartsy student sites that really don't do anything for me, let alone say anything worthwhile.
Most of all, if possible, I want these pages to entertain people, friends, and neighbours (hence "entertainment systems") since the thoroughly unprofessional contents presented here would probably alienate far more potential employers than attract them.
I reckon that folks looking to recruit those all-too-familiar boring goody-goody types (you know, the naff kind with neat cover letters and resumes always well-prepared and who are all neatly dressed up when they go to their fucking job fairs) can just bugger off and look basically bloody everywhere else.
hese pages are currently divided into nine sections:
Part one covers fall semester 1992 through fall semester 1993.
elcome to Limited Production, an online chronological survey of student projects completed as an 
he projects shown here don't have much in common since they're the cumulative result of my trying to figure out what the hell I'm doing during all the years of being in school.
However, they all somehow reflect my passion for urban environments. I enjoy exciting, unusual, and perhaps even challenging built environments (tempered by responsible 'good urbanism' and sustainable development, of course) which reflect or capture the dynamic energy of cities and the diversity of their populations.
I like places where people are encouraged to interact with each other while having fun.
I appreciate architecture that raises issues and provokes discussion.
Naturally, I'm always interested in how we can build and foster these kinds of places, as well as improve existing urban environments in general.
Since we really can't afford (economically, socially, or ecologically) to build on new, virgin, undeveloped lands anymore, we must look back toward our cities and work with what we've got.
Like it or not, the cities are where our future lies. We have to make density work.
To make a long story short, sprawl can ultimately lead to social disintegration and irreparable environmental degradation. Besides, working on infill and redevelopment projects are probably much more interesting and rewarding challenges.
inally, why an online portfolio?
Unlike a formal portfolio, I can put whatever I want here, as well as be as candid, impertinent, and irreverent (or indulgent) as I want to be.
Not only can I include study models and various rejected schemes which most people would not see otherwise, but I can also casually talk about how I really feel about my projects and their concepts, if any.
I can discuss at length the design processes. I can vent and bitch. This site is also a reaction of sorts.
These days I'm just so fucking sick of the rampant proliferation of pretentious, fancy artsy-fartsy student sites that really don't do anything for me, let alone say anything worthwhile.
Most of all, if possible, I want these pages to entertain people, friends, and neighbours (hence "entertainment systems") since the thoroughly unprofessional contents presented here would probably alienate far more potential employers than attract them.
I reckon that folks looking to recruit those all-too-familiar boring goody-goody types (you know, the naff kind with neat cover letters and resumes always well-prepared and who are all neatly dressed up when they go to their fucking job fairs) can just bugger off and look basically bloody everywhere else.