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Latest Coffee fueled posts from the Architect
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Success equals sleeping at night
Sometimes I forget what I’m trying to do here. I get wrapped up in whatever “hot button” issue my client is all worked up about today (It’s usually something related to how hard that’s going to be to waterproof)... -
Archaiku – Japanese for “awkward”
In what can only be described as an ungoing effort to alienate my readers (both of them), I’ve decided to start a series of Architectural Haiku’s. Inspired by great quantities of wine works of Architecture . What could possibly go... -
Jack’s scroll
The story goes like this: Jack Kerouac taped together 8 1/2 x 11 sheets of paper to form a continuous stream to feed through his typewriter. Then he typed “On The Road”, In one long seamless burst of creativity. They call it... -
Augmented Architect
I got a new phone this week. One of those thin ones, with the touch screen thing and the apps & such. The guy at the phone store showed me the tab that you pull to remove the battery. “Don’t pull the tab... -
Architects follow like ants, Giant freakin’ ANTS!
Buildings are very complex and it takes a team to get them built. There’s property owners, investors, Financial institutions, City officials, Architects, Engineers, Consultants, Contractors, Building Inspectors, Insurance agents, Osha inspectors, lawyers, real estate brokers, marketing professionals, and more on... -
Don Draper can suck it
Remind me when Architects become advertising agents? During the first week at my last job I heard the word “product” used to describe the project I was working on. I should have dropped my t-square and walked slowly towards the... -
Standing on shelves, quietly, waiting
There’s an amazing degree of craftsmanship involved in printing and binding a book; Making paper, carving the plates for the engravings, printing the sheets, tanning the leather, sewing the signatures, sewing the textblocks, and binding the book. Not to mention... -
Why are these chairs making me so sad?
I’ve been reading “The Architecture of Happiness” by Alain de Botton. Because I read anything about architectural philosophy and anything written by anyone named “Alain”. (umm – please ignore THIS POST - as it may undercut the aforementioned “fact”) And, while reading, I’ve found... -
Museum with George
There was this little patch of gravel in front of the new North Carolina Museum of Art. It’s a lovely field of tiny grey stones that sets the museum off like a pavilion in a Japanese garden. It’s very hard...
