We're famous! Not really, but the reporter from the U-T really liked us.

June 18, 2010 | Photo by John R. McCutchen

Point Loma Nazarene University students Angelica Barr, Daniel Nadal and Kaitlin Barr look at Shawn Benson's "Requisite Domestic" project which looks at opportunities help the homeless community. Benson's project is part of the New School of Architecture & Design, Graduate Showcase.

Angelica, Daniel, and I stopped downtown Friday evening at the New School of Architecture to see our assistant pastor's master's thesis presentation. We weren't the only ones who thought it was phenomenal. Shawn got a write-up in the San Diego Union-Tribune and we got to be in a featured photo on the U-T website (see above).

I took a couple of pictures of my own. I think we were all amazed, not just at the sophistication and innovation of Shawn's project, but also at the spatial thinking that we had to figure out how to do to comprehend his designs and ideas. We're hoping Shawn will get an audience with the city to have his plans heard.

All of the presentations were impressive, and we milled with the beautiful art people and drank coffee with whipped cream in it and tried to wrap our wordy brains around the image-speak that these architecture students had created. And as we walked the blocks back to our car, we all agreed that Shawn's work had made us see the city differently.