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, […]
culture
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]