ALERT! Location Change!

EVERYBODY should attend this meeting:
We will meet at the entrance of the Pointe-à-Callière, Mercredi 30 Mai à 10H00.
We will meet until we're done. We will walk far and fast. Wear serious walking shoes or we'll shun you and send you home. Bring money for the museum. Bring a lunch or money for lunch. Bring your map, something to write on (sketchbook), a camera, and NO COMPUTER.

Address of our Rendezvous:
Pointe-à-Callière
350 PLACE ROYALE
MONTRÉAL, QC H2Y 3Y5, Canada
(514) 872-9150

More Bike Info

Hi Brian,

I have been swamped and won't be able to help you guys out for selling you all those bikes. but, i found just the place for you. I already mentioned velomakak. I met the owner this past week end and explained to him your situation. he is willing to give you guys a group rebate and a buy back plan. He sells new and used bikes starting at $50. He has a wide selection. He is located at 215 Murray in downtown Montreal between Ottawa and Wellington street. Phone number is (514) 831-4560 website: www.velomakak.com

Hope this can help you out and looking forward to riding with you guys.

Gerry

CBC Radio Montréal

There's a Transit Strike Going on Right Now! It could be a long one. Check with the CBC to hear the details.

CBC Radio Montréal Stream

Bicycle Update!!!

Hello again Brian,

I live on Berri street two lights south of the Sauvé metro. Like I said, all I have now is 6 bikes. But I know a place on Murray street downtown called velo macak that as a whole bunch on hand at decent prices if I can't pull it off on this short notice. One of your students already contacted me for a tune up. Inform your people that I'll charge them $30 for a full tune up including wheel truing and accessory mounting. Parts are extra but they can bring their own, new or used. I also have some used spare parts for cheap.

Gerry
(514) 858-1532

A Border Town Tale

Word just in from Matt, Craig, & Mark is that my letter on TTU letterhead carries diplomatic weight like Bhoutros Bhoutros-Ghali. Someone should walk up to a border guard, hold the letter aloft and scream, "Diplomatic Immunity!" like the creepy guy in Die-Hard.
They had a tough time crossing via truck at the Detroit-Windsor tunnel checkpoint. They were being interrogated because they had told the immigration officers that they'd rented an apartment in Montréal, something that made them seem possibly too permanent and awful suspicious. EVERYONE JUST SAY YOU ARE STAYING WITH AN ACQUAINTANCE, your sublettor, AT, your apartment address, IN MONTRÉAL FOR, # of days in Canada.
The boys pulled out the letter from me and the gates flew open, seriously. I don't know what makes it grease the skids fo immigration policy for you to carry an unsigned laser jet printed letter from some obscure professor in Texas but Canadians seem to trust my word.
Carry an index card with your new landlord's name, phone number, & address with you so you'll be able to present it to an immigration officer. DO NOT LIE TO THEM BUT SAY THE LEAST YOU CAN TO MAKE AN ANSWER FOR THEM. LET THEM ASK MORE. THEY"RE TRYING TO TRIP YOU UP. IT'S THEIR JOB.

BICYCLES!!!

Because of Brice's forwarded links to a great Montréal cycling web page, we've found people (namely, Gerry of the referenced blog) who are interested in supplying us with bikes at a good price. It's also good to buy from a good mechanic too.

Here's what Gerry said:
...I recycle bikes myself, as you might know, and depending on the season I might have some to help you out. I'll try to find as many as I can. Right now I have 6 of them available. The price ranges from $50 to $100 depending on the bike, but they are all mechanically perfect. After all, I tune them all up personnally. Should I be unable to get you 27 bikes, I do know a place downtown but as far as pricing goes I haven't been there in a year. You can surely count on me for maintenance at a very reasonable price. I am located in Ahuntsic 2 blocks away from the Sauvé metro station...

Stay tuned and I'll let you know how Gerry wants to show us the bikes.

First Reading Assignment for EVERYONE

Go to this website:
Clip/Stamp/Fold
THE RADICAL ARCHITECTURE OF LITTLE MAGAZINES 196X–197X
APRIL 12 – SEPTEMBER 9, 2007
CANADIAN CENTRE FOR ARCHITECTURE / 1920 RUE BAILE / MONTRÉAL

Read every part of the website and know it.
This will be a significant part of our studio work throughout the summer.

We will have a tour of the exhibit with a curator or docent on a Monday when the centre is closed to the public and is all ours. Look at and familiarize yourselves with: Archigram, Lotus, Oppositions, Assemblage, Perspecta, and other pamphleteers and cartoonists mentioned in the exhibition. If you are in Montréal use the McGill Blackadder-Harrington Library. If you are in Dallas, Houston, Lubbock, San Antonio, or Austin use a university architecture library. Otherwise, get what you can from the internet. Scan any and all of this material you find and bring it to the first class meeting.