Predock Lecture

                         The Predock Lecture that was given by Christopher Mead was an interesting lecture.

During the lecture Chris talked about several projects that Antoine Predock did in the Albuquerque area. One of the projects that he talked about was the Rio Grande Center and how Perdock want people to experience it from the way he designed the entrance to how the visitors would interact with the interior space.  When Chris showed the picture of the diagrams I couldn’t see how Predock got his building from those sketches. The one project that stood out for me was George Pearl Hall when Chris talked about how Predock look at the Rio Grande and got his concept for the design. I was hoping to here Predock talk about this project and descried it vs. hearing someone else talk about it. As stimulating as many of his designs may look, or function, I wouldn't really know without visiting, and nothing makes that more truly then coverage on George Pearl Hall. To me this building wastes so much energy with heating it, with such a temperature change in the studio space. Even now that the weather is warming up if you go into studio at night and are one of the unlucky ones who site by the window if feels like the middle on winter. And during the GPH presentation Chris talked about hoe Predock’s main focus was the on the Central facade. Over all it was a good presentation because I got to  see how Antoine Predock thought process was.