Asheville, Summer 2006

Vincent Baudoin received his B.S. in Architecture from the University of Virginia in 2007 and began a Design Corps fellowship at the Gulf Coast Community Design Studio (GCCDS) in Biloxi, Mississippi. He is currently a full-time Intern Architect at the GCCDS, which provides design assistance to individuals and communities across the coast.

Southern Live Oak (Quercus virginiana) is an evergreen or nearly evergreen oak tree native to the southeastern United States, from Virginia to Mississippi. The majestic oaks that line the Gulf Coast have weathered many hurricanes, including Hurricane Katrina, which made landfall on the coast on August 29, 2005.

Southern Live Oak is intended to share ideas and generate discussion about community, architecture, and building. Reality is likely to be much more eclectic.

Contact: vincecb@gmail.com

Live oak photo credit: Mark Requidan.

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.” –Robert A. Heinlein

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“All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world: our sight, our touch, our memory. If they lie to us, then nothing can be trusted. And even if we do not believe, then still we cannot travel in any other way than the road our senses show us; and we must walk that road to the end.” –American Gods, by Neil Gaiman

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Take a walk downtown, and dream with me
We’ll walk the parks and the empty streets
You know the seasons ought to be
Love, Loss, Hope, Repeat. –Carbon Leaf