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Time to Purge

This is a good summary for the weekend as my family and I worked hard on removing clutter. Maybe we should have read the book before working, though. Ah well, maybe next weekend. Full link here to interview with the author: http://www.boingboing.net/2011/03/11/interview-with-autho-4.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29

I guess the world is going to be fine after all

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“Never, never, never, never give up.”

This is one of my favorite Winston Churchill quotes, and it is quickly becoming a solid mantra for 2010. Even though this isn’t really about architecture, the link below reminded me of that quote. It is an excellent  reminder that sometimes your long-term win may not have anything to do […]

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Pancreatic Cancer Awareness

These are images from the bridge dedication at Carnegie Mellon University for Randy Pausch. Randy is the author of “The Last Lecture.” Although this is important and worthy of mention all on its own, there is a reason it is on my mind today and I’m posting about it as […]

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Pittsburgh: A New Portrait

So I am one of those people mentioned in this book review that fled from Pittsburgh, but I still have a place in my heart for the city I was born in. In Phoenix, we have a book published by the AIA that documents the historic and important buildings in […]

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Bruce Nauman – “Leave the Land Alone”

This installation occurred in LA on September 12. The link to the NYT blog is here (and excerpted below): http://themoment.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/seeing-things-written-on-the-sky/ Photos by Andreas Branch/Patrick McMullan, courtesy of ForYourArtSkywriters spell out “Leave the Land Alone,” the message of Bruce Nauman’s “Untitled 1969/2009,” over the Arroyo Seco in Pasadena, Calif., on Sept. 12. […]

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SF Precedent – At home in PHX?

Not only is this an interesting solution, but it makes good financial sense to develop (even temporarily) underutilized sites in downtown PHX. Something like this would be right at home along Roosevelt, and help reinforce the City’s commitment to the developing art scene. This from the Architect’s Paper Blog, posting […]

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The Case for new Case Studies

The need for revolutionary housing solutions may be one of the most important issues we face as architects in the upcoming years. In my article “Density=Destiny: Broadening the Local Sustainable Discussion” written in 2005, I outlined how the leaderless sprawl that had governed the Phoenix, Arizona growth plan for the […]

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The changing architectural landscape

Michelle Kaufmann, the darling of the latest prefab movement, has fallen on hard times. Even in these hard economic times where up is down and change is constant, I think this is one of the most significant and clear signals about the future of this practice.  http://blog.michellekaufmann.com/?p=2147 I didn’t fully understand […]