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Loves the smell of freshly lasercut wood. Wants to build a ship in a bottle. Associate Professor of Interior Design and Architectural History. #WACOTOWN

Waco, TX
Joined February 2011
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LEGO just dropped its largest set ever: La Sagrada Familia. It has 12,060 pieces and costs $800. The set comes 100 years after Antoni Gaudi’s death (June 10, 1926). The details are insane including spires, carvings and interior with light shining through stain-glass windows.
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#MarkRothko was born on this day in Dvinsk, Russia. 🎂 His work often consists of rectangular color fields that appear to blend and bleed into one another, creating a sense of depth and intensity. Learn more: gu.gg/3LDutjL 🎨: Mark Rothko, "Red," 1968
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Very cool visualization of P5 stadiums and their surrounding neighborhoods.
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A HEAT ADVISORY will be in effect for Austin from this afternoon through September 30th
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When you’re the BIG 12 CHAMPIONS! #SicEm – at Arlington, TX
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BAYLOR WINS!!!! THE BAYLOR BEARS ARE THE 2021 #BIG12FB CHAMPIONS!!! #SICEM – at Arlington, TX
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That feeling when your team MAKES THE BIG 12 CHAMPIONSHIP! 🏆 #SicEm || @BUFootball 🏈
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Happy 154th birthday to the man who envisioned #Fallingwater and so much more: Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959). Our friends at @WrightTaliesin share his favorite birthday cake recipe for you to enjoy: bit.ly/34ETVkb. #architecture #architecturelovers #Happybirthday
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Art Gensler Dies at 85: The namesake founder @gensler_design leaves behind an enduring legacy of collaboration, design education, and commitment to architecture. bit.ly/ARobitAG
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I love Art Deco
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𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟏 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 🏆 Our @BaylorMBB squad is bringing back their first national championship to Waco! 🥳️🥳️ #SicEm | @TXFBinsurance
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“Democracy is a very high thing. The faith in the individual is a great challenge and America is that challenge to the world.” - Frank Lloyd Wright Voting is key to our democracy. We encourage everyone, if you haven’t yet cast your ballot, please do so today! #VOTE
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The Stirling Prize has been cancelled for the first time since it was created due to "ongoing public health concerns" over in-person judging due to the coronavirus pandemic: at.dezeen.com/3ikMrY6
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“True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns... At its best it is an emphasis of structure, a realization in graceful terms of the nature of that which is ornamented.” - Frank Lloyd Wright What’s your favorite FLLW quote?
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🎉🎂🙏HAPPY #BIRTHDAY WALTER #GROPIUS - Founder of #Bauhaus Movement - 1883-1969
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“Neither television nor illegal drugs has been the chief destroyer of American communities. Instead, the automobile has that dubious honor.” – Jane Jacobs
Tremont 1951 vs Today
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. @JoeDoucet creates practical and fashionable face shield with integrated sunglass lenses designboom.com/design/joe-do…
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#Baylor Professor, #InteriorDesign Expert Elise King (@TXdesignprof) Adapts to #TeachingOnline with New Interactive Approach to Iconic Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright bit.ly/3c27k7T
Kids with compromised immune systems (like those fighting cancer) need something special: a hyperclean play space. Inspired by a young girl named Lily, Baylor interior design students & faculty are helping design just such a space: bit.ly/2wCbMuk
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