Architecture

Robert Redford Building

Redford, a longtime environmental activist born and raised in Santa Monica, said the building symbolized a step forward for the conservation movement, which he said had been dealt setbacks by the Bush administration.

"We are now suffering through an administration that has, in a very calculating way, set out to undermine and destroy 30 years of hard work," he said.

Bavinger House .by Bruce Goff

Eames..the do-it-yourself Kwikset House

Fuller Institute .

Taliesin Book Store Frank L. Wright

Arcosanti

Cal-Earth

Kebyar Network .Inspired by Bruce Goff

Memphis Public Library

	
Johnny Appleseed and Swedenborg

The California mission style of arts and crafts architecture was
inspired by the Swedenborg church where they had (or have?) trees
at the altar, and a simple, rustic, building style.

Pictures of these turn of the century buildings look a lot like
Wright's early houses.

The philosophy of Swedenborg seems to have influenced archicecture
since then.

"Anti-commercial and anti-modern, the California Arts and Crafts Movement 
drew upon the decorative schemes of English Tudor, Swiss chalet, 
Japanese temple, and Spanish mission, evoking an earlier time 
before modern industry and technology intruded."

review of "Toward a Simpler Way of Life: The Arts and Crafts Architects of California";
 Robert Winter  

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0520209168/ref=ase_theartscraftssoc/104-6293402-0760753?v=glance&s=books
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"A man has appeared who seems to be almost independent of corporeal wants 
and sufferings. He goes barefooted, can sleep anywhere, in house or out of house, 
and live upon the coarsest and most scanty fare. He has actually thawed ice 
with his bare feet. He procures what books he can of the New Church, 
travels into the remote settlements, and lends them wherever he can find readers, 
and sometimes divides a book into two or three parts for more extensive 
distribution and usefulness. This man for years past has been in the employment 
of bringing into cultivation, in numberless places in the wilderness, 
small patches (two or three acres) of ground, and then sowing apple seeds 
and rearing nurseries..."

"oday there are approximately 100 Swedenborgian churches and centers 
in North America, several in the regions where Johnny Appleseed carried 
his Swedenborg books with such lively conviction." 

"As an historical scientist, Swedenborg is one of the world's geniuses. 
A Stanford University I.Q. study cited Swedenborg as one of the three 
highest intelligences in history. The Ripley Museum in San Francisco 
created a display entitled, "The World's Greatest Achiever," illustrating 
an enormous list of scientific achievements of distinction in seventeen 
separate sciences. But it is only when he turned to the inner world of 
the soul that he made his most lasting contributions." 

"His work on dreams anticipated Freud and Jung."

............... http://www.jappleseed.org/religion.html