Maria From Metropolis

This photo was taken the last time I was in Los Angeles (visiting family and friends), around 5/15/07. Here I am with the robot "Maria" from the influential 1927 Fritz Lang movie "Metropolis". This is especially signifiicant for me, because Metropolis was one of the movies we studied while I was in Architecture school, in order to understand some of the design motifs during the German Weimar Republic period.