The Alan Watts Mountain Center
The Alan Watts Mountain Center is under construction in a rural area bordered by the Pt. Reyes National Seashore north of San Francisco. 
One of the long-term missions of the Center is to complete the Alan Watts digital archive and continue the dissemination of Alan Watts' recordings. The In addition to online publishing, our goal is to continue make the Alan Watts archive accessible for education and creative productions by providing materials to libraries, educators, producers, writers, musicians, editors, animators, and others. In the near term the Center facilities will become home to Alan Watts web publishing, online broadcasting and podcasting (see alanwattspodcast.com) The Center will also be a meeting place for working groups, small conferences, and occasional retreats. 
The Center's library will house the audio and video archives, and a unique collection of works related to Alan Watts' passion for visual language including calligraphy by Japanese artist Sabro Hasegawa and an extensive photo archive.
The Center is being built using ecologically appropriate materials and sustainable architecture pioneered by organic architect Daniel Libermann. To date half of the library and film building has been completed, and studio and guest facilities are in various stages of construction. Currently we are focusing on raising funds for completion of the library and film center in Phase I. As part of Phase II, rafters are now being raised for the production studio. Construction of the meeting hall will begin in Phase III, and upon completion each building phase will add to the Center's capabilities. The Center is currently seeking support on all levels, and anyone interested in helping should contact Mark Watts
Library/Guest Facility Phase I
Library/Guest Facility Plan View
Main Hall Phase III
Production Studio, Phase II
About the Architect: Daniel B-H Lieberman
"Daniel practices in Berkeley, California and at his Point Reyes studio in Marin County. He received his Master of Land Planning and Architecture degrees from Harvard University, and studied for two years with Frank Lloyd Wright at the Taliesin Fellowship. He has taught at U. C. Berkeley, Polytechnical University of Turin, and is currently a lecturer at the San Francisco Institute of Architecture."
He has made a number of remarkable discoveries in his work. One is that a curvilinear environment is experienced visually and physically as noticeably larger than a rectilinear one. This allows a small home to be perceived as being several hundred square feet larger than it actually is.
"He has also pioneered in giving aesthetic expression to some remarkably prosaic materials and alternative construction methods"- Fred Stitt, Ecological Architecture, 1999.
Below are some images of the architect's other projects:
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About Ecological Architecture
The process of "evolving" such buildings as mine begins with the instinctual process one employs to select a niche in the land for one's sleeping bag or tent for camping. The process ascends into more complex and rich practical aspects that can be Art....spontaneous and natural. Here the fixated professional and commercial factors which more and more often dominate the human environment are pushed aside.
Architecture is coming closer to music and transcending its tedious, mundane, and pragmatic limits by understanding more and having more technique to wield that understanding by human perception. The advanced implications of this are that, ultimately, the "art of architecture" becomes very pragmatic. This is because the aesthetic and perception become identified as one thing. The qualitative function of-form-space-structure mediates the quantitative entity intelligent.
Other Radial Structures
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