A MUSEUM OF RAIN_PAGE THREE Jeffrey Smith Doug Rice Robert Horton
BOOKS WORTH REMEMBERING __________________________________________________________________ Thames Estuary 2100 Report The Environmental Agency Collage City Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter The Death and Life of Great American Cities Jane Jacobs On Photography Susan Sontag The Human Condition Hannah Arendt The Vertical Garden: From Nature to the City Patrick Blanc Origins of Architectural Pleasure Grant Hildebrand Sculpting in Time Andrei Tarkovsky Something Like an Autobiography Akira Kurosawa
TUTORS____________________________________________________________________________________________ Hometown: Seattle, Washington. USA In the U.S., Seattle owns the national “Rain City” reputation. As such, it is clearly a Sister City to London in the context of rain. Jeffrey moved to the Pacific Northwest coast as a teenager and Doug and Robert, being Seattle natives, have grown up with Seattle’s infamous rain. What we know is that there is a good and a bad to all that goes along with our particular weather patterns and conditions: rain forests, mountain snow packs, glaciers, rivers, lakes, streams, flooding, leaking roofs, soggy yards, soaked shoes, tidal surges, rising sea levels, slow and dangerous traffic, storms, umbrellas, lush rain gardens, rainbows, and the occasional landslide. In this, we are experts. Jeffrey Smith Prior to graduation from the University of Oregon Jeffrey taught Architectural Theory and Architectural Design at the U of O. After graduation he taught Architectural Design at the University of Washington. Since that time he has worked as a senior project designer with several large corporate firms here in Seattle, traveled extensively, collected slide projectors, and studied art. He is currently painting and working independently on two residential projects. http://jeffreysmithworldphotography.com/ Doug Rice After a 15 year career in graphics, and advertising, Doug’s midlife degree in landscape architecture from the University of Washington brought him to work for King County’s Storm water Section to educate the general public about storm water control and water quality. He currently chairs the regional STORM coalition. Doug has a mastery of interpretive signage, Low Impact Development techniques, natural yard care methods, and has been teaching garden design independently for 18 years. Doug has a minor in environmental psychology and is a nationally recognized practitioner of Social Marketing. One of his programs has been featured in Social Marketing to Protect the Environment: What Works. Doug has a TV show called “Yard Talk” on the KCTV Network: http://www.kingcounty.gov/environment/stewardship/nw-yard-and-garden/yard-talk.aspx Robert Horton Robert is the film critic for KUOW (Seattle's National Public Radio station) and the Herald in Everett, Washington; he is also a longtime contributor to Film Comment magazine. He curates the Magic Lantern film-discussion program at the Frye Art Museum, is Adjunct Faculty in Film Studies at Seattle University, and is a guest speaker for Smithsonian Journeys and Humanities Washington, as well as a member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association. His books include Billy Wilder: Interviews (University Press of Mississippi), the upcoming Frankenstein (Columbia University Press), and the zombie-Western graphic novel Rotten and its prose spin-off The Lost Diary of John J. Flynn, U.S. Agent (Moonstone Books). He blogs on movies at The Crop Duster (roberthorton.wordpress.com). In 2012 he curated the Museum of History and Industry's "Celluloid Seattle: A City at the Movies" exhibit. http://roberthorton.wordpress.com/