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?

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.

inspiration revisited

photo by Lee Calisti, building by Steven Holl

As we close out 2018, my final thoughts focus on the topic of inspiration. Fitting for an architect – right? Where does it come from or what is its origin? A careful look at my posts from 2011 and one will find the subject stuck in my mind back then. I wrote about it twice.

conversation

tons of concrete are a drop in a bucket

I was taught many years ago to consider a conversation as passing a ball back and forth with someone.

accountable

Architecture is a business; architecture is a profession. Architecture is a concept, a religion, a movement, a passion, and an indication that we were here. It is so many things; yet it’s so cool.