design is not magic

the secret is mostly sweat and repetition

It’s been over a year. It might be another.

Today’s post is sharing a response to a struggling student honestly looking for answers to how one designs. How are historic works of architecture conceived?

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revealing the secret to the things a minimalist chooses to remain within his house

our math-gifted son painted this in his middle school art class, and we loved it

I don’t know much about art, but I know what I like.

the architecture of theory and how it is evidenced in my practice

Theory and abstraction are not the same. I’ll merely scratch the surface.

sweat the details…architects must sweat the details

joints are necessary to address expansion, contraction, material limits, why not express them?

What am I thinking about today? Details – not just literal architectural details, but I’m thinking about how we as architects imagine and plan for multiple events, components and at times relationships coming together – beautifully. It does not just happen.

architects do not have x-ray vision

Yes, I’m thinking about something today. If you don’t know me, I am an architect whose firm focuses on adaptive reuse.