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.

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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.

don’t let ’em go – (or ‘er)

new steel column where we uncovered a wood stud column

What am I thinking about today? Contract Administration. Too many incidents and too many stories happened in the past few months.

if i could, i surely would

I’d rather be a sparrow than a snail
Yes I would, if I could, I surely would
I’d rather be a hammer than a nail
Yes I would, if I only could, I surely would

What am I thinking about today?

judging from ignorance

What am I thinking about today? Today, it is more what I’d rather not be thinking about if I had to be honest. People talk, people talk a lot, people need to stop talking.