Monday, April 25, 2011
A TOUCHING TALE OF ARCHITECTURE
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“Please don’t touch!” You won’t see that admonition in great buildings too often, as you usually do in museums and galleries. If archite...
Monday, April 18, 2011
CUT THE BULL
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Calvin Coolidge, the thirtieth president of the United States, was a man of few words. His terse responses to the press have become legendar...
Monday, April 11, 2011
ENERGY CONSERVATION: Penny Wise, Pound Foolish
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“Spare at the spigot,” admonishes an old proverb, “and let out the bunghole.” That rather tidily sums up America’s schizophrenic attitude t...
Monday, March 28, 2011
THE TRIANGLE FIRE: A Tragic Centennial
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THIS DOOR TO REMAIN UNLOCKED DURING BUSINESS HOURS. Ever notice this puzzling placard above the door as you’re leaving a commercial buildin...
Monday, March 21, 2011
SOME GRAVE OBSERVATIONS
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Mausoleum of Big four railroad magnate Charles Crocker, Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, California (c 1888) Suppose I told you about a...
Monday, March 14, 2011
BIG-BOX BUNGLING
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A while back, I stopped off at my local “big-box” home-improvement emporium to buy a coupling, a common electrical fitting that costs less t...
Monday, March 7, 2011
THE HOWARD ROARKE SYNDROME
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Ayn Rand’s famed novel “The Fountainhead” is the amusingly overwrought tale of an egocentric architect named Howard Roarke. On finding tha...
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