New INFILL Projects in the city of St. Louis, August, 2015

This housing is southeast of Forest Park.

New development near St. Louis University, along Forest Park Parkway, and the new IKEA store.

Architectural project with Mackey & Associates, 1983-84 - complete rehab of a vacant warehouse structure to residential spaces, in Midtown area of St. Louis city

I worked on the as-builts for this project, as a new graduate Architect, with a couple of other guys from the office of Mackey & Associates, located on Pershing Avenue, St. Louis, Mo.  63112.  I worked with other Architects Jeremiah Sheehan and Joe Bauer -

Joe Bauer -  https://www.linkedin.com/pub/joe-bauer-aia-leed-ap/11/821/132

Jeremiah Sheehan's Mom died, August 1, 2010 -  http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/stltoday/obituary.aspx?pid=144453361

Eugene J. Mackey III died, on Sunday, November 27, 2016.

http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/news/2016/11/29/gene-mackey-dies-founded-one-of-st-louis-largest.html

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/stltoday/obituary.aspx?pid=182835841

http://www.architectmagazine.com/practice/influential-st-louis-architect-gene-mackey-died_o

https://source.wustl.edu/2016/12/eugene-mackey-iii-77/

http://www.mackeymitchell.com/gene/

The Spy science fiction short story, completed while a graduate student at Pratt Institute

Right click and select "Open link in new window" to read more easily - use the magnifying glass, and open the new window to full screen

First page

Second page

Third page

Fourth page

Fifth page

Sixth page

Seventh (and last) page

Geometry in Architecture with AutoCAD thesis drawings (1990), floor plans, elevations, interior and exterior views - Set of Slides is available upon request

Joaquin Margot, M.F.A.

Joaquin Margot was one of seven who completed requirements for a Master of Fine Arts (Computer Graphics) at Pratt Institute, on 10/1/90.  He completed a computer graphics thesis, with Alias Animator software, entitled 'Virtual Obsession', which I saw being worked on the computer lab, with help from Rafael Castelblanco.  I did not know the full extent of the help that he got, but I saw that the digitization was done by Cyberware, and he told us he flew to their office and back, for the data file of his head.  This thesis is online, on YouTube.com, put there by 'mdmovieman', or Mr. Ely Goldbrenner, a student who studied at Pratt during summer, 1990, in the Architecture bldg.  I never knew Mr. Ely Goldbrenner existed before a day in April of 2012, when I happened to see this thesis video posted on YouTube.com by him.  I have, since, put my thesis work and other undergraduate work on YouTube.com.  I don't know of any other (there are five others that could be posted) 1990 thesis postings, still, today, in 2012. 

Joachim Margot - YouTube

 What comes to mind about that time was that there were three babies born - to my thesis advisor Mr. Jeremy Gardiner;  to Mr. Phil Avanzato, who was Lab Asst. to Mr. Isaac Kerlow and Ely Goldbrenner's teacher; and one in my family.  I traveled to Switzerland, on the way to Strasbourg, France, in January, 1991, and met with Joaquin in Lausanne for a few minutes, and talked to him about work, which was the intent of the meeting.  At that time, I needed something to take with me from this new program, and did not even have a diploma, no thesis exhibit, no job leads or recruiters on campus,  or any previous graduates of the program to talk to or know.  Joaquin happened to be from Europe, and I am of European descent.  None of the other graduates were European - South American, South Korean(Asian) or from the middle east.  I was the only single nationality American in the program at that time, a licensed professional in the state of New York, a Registered Architect.  I don't know of any other Registered Architects from this program, still, now over 20 years later.  

I did not ever expect to see his head on the cover of a software CD, as I did in 2003.  The CD was 'Maya PLE', and his thesis animation of his head had been redone to a single photo of his real head, with a tattoo on his forehead.  

I have not seen Joaquin Margot, using the additional last name of 'Gil' in Madrid, Spain, since June, 1997, nor talked to him.  He was working for a company named 'SGO', an Alias reseller, in downtown, but, was employed by Alias/wavefront, Inc., in Paris, France.  I traveled back to Europe after being invited to help teach at Washington University in Fall, 1996, to teach their Alias Studio software in the School of Engineering.  I had questions, and a lot of questions, at that time, regarding what had happened to my work, and had none of them answered. In fact, I was ignored and lied to, and paid a lot of money to get that information.  I was without a car for two years, and lived in poverty until I received the posted e-mail from Pratt's Career placement contact, in 1998.  I still have questions, but, don't have any idea who can help me now.  I had little to take with me in 1990, and what I found when I looked around was like me asking for more than anyone had to give away. 

Supporting Documentation

Organizations, Companies, Products, Agencies, Banks, People and Schools supporting my work and student loans paid in Computer Graphics at Pratt Institute, 1/17/1988 - 1/17/1991, and since in Missouri - information found on the internet:

St. Louis Chapter American Institute of Architects - http://www.aia-stlouis.org/default2.asp

New York Chapter American Institute of Architects - http://main.aiany.org/

University of Missouri - Columbia - Undergraduate Architectural program equivalent program - http://arch.missouri.edu/

University of Missouri - St. Louis - Engineering programs - http://www.umsl.edu/divisions/engineering/

Kansas State University - College of Architecture, Planning & Design - http://capd.ksu.edu/

Kansas State University, Office of Academic Personnel -
http://www.k-state.edu/academicpersonnel/fhbook/fhxd.html

Kansas State University, Office of General Counsel -
http://www.k-state.edu/attys/

Washington University - School of Engineering - http://engineering.wustl.edu/

Washington University in St. Louis, Office of Executive Vice Chancellor and General Counsel - http://ogc.wustl.edu/

New York University - http://www.nyu.edu/

Alias Research, Inc., Alias/wavefront, Inc. - http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/index?id=12239999&siteID=123112

http://www.autodeskresearch.com/gord/background.html

Maya software, owned by Autodesk, Inc. - http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/index?id=13577897&siteID=123112

Maya Personal Learning Edition:
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/index?id=13578047&siteID=123112

Silicon Graphics, Inc. and Partners - http://www.sgi.com/partners/


Pratt Institute Graduate Computer Graphics 1990 graduates' websites
- Mr. Joaquin Margot (Gil) - http://ftp.sv.vt.edu/pub/abstracts/Theses93

- Mr. Rafael Castelblanco - http://digitalcontentproducer.com/mag/video_catch/

- Mr. Lino Ribolla
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-109289370/lino-ribolla-moves-ogilvyinteractive.html

- Miss Gigi (HiKyung) Park - http://ftp.sv.vt.edu/pub/abstracts/Theses93
- Miss Mimi (MiYoung) Lee - http://ftp.sv.vt.edu/pub/abstracts/Theses93
- Miss Bina Waicberg - http://ftp.sv.vt.edu/pub/abstracts/Theses93


Mr. Isaac Victor Kerlow, M.S. Communications Design 1983, Chair of the Computer Graphics Dept. from 1986- approx. 1995, new graduate Board of Trustees member - http://research.ntu.edu.sg/expertise/academicprofile/pages/StaffProfile.aspx?ST_EMAILID=ISAAC&CategoryDescription=artsdesignandmedia

Auto Accident Death of Mr. Etan Manesse, Chair of the Communications Design Dept., until death in 10/90 (word of mouth from Mei-Ling Yen, M.S. Communications Design, 1991). I interviewed with him at his New York City studio prior to entering as a Master of Science Communications Design student in Summer, 1987.

Pratt Institute Trustees: http://www.pratt.edu/about_pratt/mission_and_governance/trustees/

Mr. Hal A. Dorfman, Bachelor of Architecture and Registered Architect (R.A.), new graduate Board of Trustees member, Pratt Architectural graduate 1984 - http://hdarchitect.com/

Pratt Institute Student Policies:
http://www.pratt.edu/student_life/student_affairs/student_policies/

National Association of Schools of Art and Design:
http://nasad.arts-accredit.org/index.jsp?page=Member+Lists&memberId=c21fb0f034620289d7e50f34df83b8ae

Middle States Commission on Higher Education
http://www.msche.org/institutions_print.asp?idinstitution=367

Brooklyn Polytechnic University - http://www.poly.edu/academics

Rensselear Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York - http://eng.rpi.edu/soe/

The Cooper Union - http://cooper.edu/legacy/engineering/Welcome.html

Columbia University - http://engineering.columbia.edu/

New York State Higher Education Services Corporation - http://www.hesc.com/content.nsf/

United States Department of Education - http://www.ed.gov/students/landing.jhtml

Chemical Bank - http://www.answers.com/topic/chemical-banking

Missouri Department of Higher Education - http://www.dhe.mo.gov/

St. Charles County, Missouri government - http://www.sccmo.org/home/

Missouri Professional Registration - http://www.pr.mo.gov

Association for Computing Machinery - A.C.M. - www.acm.org

Special Interest Group - Graphics - A.C.M.-SIGGRAPH - www.siggraph.org

Accrediting Board for Engineering and Technology - ABET, Inc. - www.abet.org

National Council of Architectural Registration Boards - N.C.A.R.B. - www.ncarb.org

Middle States Commission on Higher Education - http://www.msche.org/

Higher Learning Commission - http://www.ncahlc.org/

University of Phoenix - http://www.phoenix.edu

The Council on Chiropractic Education - http://cce-usa.org/

Arcturis - Planning, Architecture, Interiors, in St. Louis, Mo. - www.arcturis.com

Mr. Michael O'Rourke, Professor, Alias Animation, 1988, 1989
http://3dtutorials.michaelorourke.com/?page=author

http://mysite.pratt.edu/~morourke/

Mr. Venantius J. Pinto - started in 1988 - but a member of the 1992 graduating class in graduate Computer Graphics:
http://www.jacketflap.com/profile.asp?member=venantius

Mr. Suk-il Hong - started in 1988 - but a member of the 1991 graduating class in graduate Computer Graphics:
http://education.siggraph.org/resources/past-projects/m-s-and-ph-d-computer-graphics-theses/FrontPage/theses93