When it comes to identifying home styles, most people know generic terms such as Victorian, Bungalow, and Spanish.  Really pegging the thing...

Most architectural writing deals with what you might call “legitimate” styles: mass-produced, popular and relatively buttoned-down stuff.  B...

The other day I was driving down a local street lined with carefully inoffensive white, beige, or tan bungalows when something remarkable ca...

Channel surfing a while back, I happened across an old Joan Crawford movie called Mildred Pierce .  I won’t summarize the plot here--I could...

Halfway up one of the brick walls of my office, part of an old factory building dating from 1907, there’s a single brick that’s twisted slig...

Believe it or not, prior to the late 1930s, people who lived in travel trailers full-time were hailed as adventurous, modern-day nomads, and...

Architects love to start from a clean slate.  It’s inherent in our training, and often, it’s for the best--after all, clean-slate thinking ...