This week... I WILL BEGIN WRITING

I am back at school and... okay! Let's get down to business! (to defeat... the Huns - hyaaah! No, not really.)

Guided loosely by the last outline (which my professor has encouraged me not to revise so hastily quite yet), I will begin writing this week. My goal is to write at least 20 pages by the first day of classes on Jan 16th. I plan to write parts of the Introduction and the bulk of Chapter 2, as that is what my professor has encouraged me to focus on: defining what LH is and what it does.

Some notes on where I'm headed from here:
- I will no longer focus so narrowly on relating LH's choice to go with Modernism with subconscious anthropocentric tendencies.. Maybe this is for one of the later critique/analysis chapters, but not for Ch. 2 where I introduce the company. The tour opened up other, most salient reasons for why Modernism, according to LH, was a suitable style to build, that it expressed virtues of cleanness and simplicity. LH's people are clearly passionate about the environment, but to them, it is also about pragmatism - and I think first describing that tension, between pragmatism/realism and passion, is more salient than just diving right into anthropocentrism. Anthropocentrism is just ONE way of looking at LH, and I don't want to limit the entire paper to that.
- I will definitely still write about the history of LH and ground it its background in Case Studies, Post-WWII experiments in prefab, the hope of the times, etc. as well as to explain the Modernist ideals. Now that I've read more, I feel these are very important for understanding the ideology of LH, and just why they are so hopeful and passionate in starting up their company.

My professor said not to worry about changing direction just yet, so I won't, and will see how far I get this week. Stay tuned...