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I posted this a couple of years ago and thought I would put it back up today in honor of the great Maurice Sendak who just passed away. This little sequence, where Max’s room turns into a forest, is one of the reasons I became an architect. Thank you Mr. Sendak. “That very night in [...]
“It was beautiful in Longmont. Under a tremendous old tree was a bed of green lawn-grass belonging to a gas station. I asked the the attendant if I could sleep there, and he said sure; so I stretched out a wool shirt, laid my face flat on it, with an elbow out, and with one [...]
Ah, I’m hungry. He entered Davy Byrne’s. Moral pub. He doesn’t chat. Stands a drink now and then. But in leapyear once in four. Cashed a cheque for me once. What will I take now? He drew his watch. Let me see now. Shandygraff? – Hellow, Bloom! Nosey Flynn said from his nook. – Hello, [...]
It’s been over twenty years since I was in Venice. That sounds inconceivable to me as that wonderful and awful city sits in such a dominant and insistent place in my memory. I haven’t visited except in the dozens of drawings in now faded sketchbooks and hundreds of film negatives tucked safely away. Of the [...]
After waiting a number of weeks for a copy of At Home by Bill Bryson to make its way off the Holdshelf and into general circulation at the local library, I finally purchased a copy the other day. I can fully admit to being completely fascinated by opinions, history and thoughts on what we all [...]
part 2 of an essential reading or re-reading list for architects, both new and experienced
a beginning at assembling a required reading list for new architects and a reminder to practicing architects to review these works with the lessons of years of experience, myself included.
the last of a three-part look at libraries and their formal arrangement and spatial morphology
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