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I sat on an architecture jury the other day and was reminded of a post from a while ago that laid out the necessity of this fraught process for the education of an architect. So a bit of recycling here, with some more recent thoughts on the changing nature of architectural juries. The basic process [...]
Framing has begun in earnest on a new house we designed for the Dakota Ridge neighborhood in north Boulder. Weeks of excavation and foundations do not lend much to the physical presence of the building, but in few short days, a flurry of framing happens and the building begins to take shape. The pace of [...]
What is the fascination with abandoned buildings? There is certainly some attraction to the mystery and faint danger of these places, but I think there are darker forces at work as well. In abandoned industrial sites, much of mystery of the place has to do with the fearful contrast of the quiet stillness of the [...]
The title of this post is not an allusion to a gay bar in Chicago, although I do think there was one with that name. Rather, I have written in the past about the growing prevalence of and interest in gender specific ‘guy spaces’. I am not an academic and I am wary of stepping [...]
Construction is well under way on a single family house we designed for a site in north Boulder. The lot is on the edge of the city’s open space facing west to a series of rolling foothills. As a corner lot, the house’s views are primarily directed toward this westward view with some smaller, more [...]
a brief attempt to explain the genesis and motivation for this blog and the conundrum of architects, architecture and writing
I try not to have this little blog be a mere reposting of other’s content or the latest eye-candy images of buildings (archi-porn), but rather to try to add something, maybe feeble, to the dialog about making, architecture and place. However, occasionally a really interesting article or topic comes to my attention and begs for [...]
An astute client pointed out that the magnificent house on Green Rock Drive, the Menkick House, by Charles Haertling, is up for sale. Completed in 1970, the Menkick House is among Haertling’s finest works and ranks alongside his Volsky House, Benton House and Willard House as one of the finest examples of late Modernist Organic [...]