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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 [...]
Of the many things that stand between architects and clients, none is so fraught as the architect’s quest for architectural integrity which often masquerades as Truth. Please don’t get me wrong, I am not asserting that all architects are questing for Truth while our clients really were only looking for a building. I have rarely [...]
In many ways, building or remodeling is about the most local, job-creating activity within the economy. Unless your construction is from very unconventional materials, they are most likely sourced relatively closely to the place of construction. ”Local” may mean the US, not the preferred 500 mile definition, but very few of the things consumers typically [...]
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 [...]
A scupper, in architectural terms, is not some name for a lowly pirate, but rather a device to get water off a roof and away from a building. Most typically found on flat roof buildings, scuppers project out from the sidewall of a building at roof level and allow rainwater and snow melt to flow [...]
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 [...]