Vieux Carré Creole Townhouse Architecture Project

Vieux Carré
Originally uploaded by Matthew Levine.

The beauty & importance of Nouvelle Orleans (named for the Duc d’Orleans):

Creole architecture . . .

- Creole / criollo (Sp, “cry” of a European child born in the New World).
1) Spanish or French person born in the colonies.
2) European plus African-American person.
(cafe au lait: “coffee with milk”).

Vieux Carre Architecture Project (due Wednesday, 6 pts.):
1) color
2) Annotated:
louvers
shutters
cypress
port cochere
wrought iron
dormer
courtyard
3) Small maps of New Orleans and France (include Paris & Orleans and neighboring nations).
Source: cr.nps.gov (National Park Service)

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See the excellent movie “Master & Commander.” The sound design of this movie included recording the sounds of canvas sails as they flapped from masts and booms erected on a truck bed which was operated in the screaming winds of the Mojave. The movie takes us to the shores of Patagonia, the wild region of Southern Argentina along the Atlantic, as well as to the Galapagos Islands.

You may compare it to another geography-minded movie in a comparison essay for bonus points. Email me with your proposal: trudeau@earthlink.net.