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  • 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...

    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...

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  • 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...

    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...

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  • . Remind me, when did 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....

    Don Draper can suck it

    . Remind me, when did 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....

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  • 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,...

    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,...

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  • 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 -...

    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 -...

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  • 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...

    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...

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  • I spent the weekend in Beaufort, NC. I looked over the water, and the marshes, and watched the sun go down over the sound. I watched the fishing boats come...

    Architecture filters the environment, you know, like a clam

    I spent the weekend in Beaufort, NC. I looked over the water, and the marshes, and watched the sun go down over the sound. I watched the fishing boats come...

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  • . We are all going to die! If you drop a lobster into a pot of boiling water, it’s going to freak out, because that water is hot. And, it’s...

    Hey Architects, we are all going to die!

    . We are all going to die! If you drop a lobster into a pot of boiling water, it’s going to freak out, because that water is hot. And, it’s...

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  • Tunnels Eventually, you don’t have another choice. You have to dig through the mountain. I bet they’d built the road along the edge of the mountains for years. They took...

    In tunnels

    Tunnels Eventually, you don’t have another choice. You have to dig through the mountain. I bet they’d built the road along the edge of the mountains for years. They took...

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