Not so long ago, a well-equipped architect might have had the following items on his drawing board: A tee square or parallel rule; a coupl...

The other day I was eating breakfast at a cozy little diner called Sam’s Log Cabin, not far from where I live. The place is pretty much wh...

While much of the verbiage architects have churned out over the years has deservedly been forgotten, a number of phrases have managed to e...

Some years ago I was walking through an old Victorian house that was being renovated. In one room where the original wall framing was expo...

If you’ve ever seen a picture of Stonehenge, the prehistoric monument near Salisbury, England, you’ll recognize the structural system know...

A contractor once told me an interesting story about a house he’d built for a man in Connecticut. Winter was already setting in when he’d ...

Here's a textbook example of how NOT to reach your home’s front entrance. A while back, I came across this otherwise rather charming hou...