Tuesday, November 5, 2019
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...
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
PG&E PUNISHES CUSTOMERS FOR THE FAILURE OF ITS 19TH-CENTURY GRID
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The Camp fire, Paradise, California, November 2018. A PG&E equipment failure was likely the ignition source. (Image: Josh Edels...
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
WHY ROOFS LEAK
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Wright's roofs: "They don't call it Fallingwater for nothing." (Bear Run, Pennsylvania, completed 1939) The root pur...
Monday, October 14, 2019
ONE REASON ARCHITECTS BLOW THE BUDGET
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Ayn Rand's Howard Roark character, here portrayed by Gary Cooper in the Warner Bros. film of 1949: The poster boy for architectura...
Monday, October 7, 2019
POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE SPACE IN DESIGN: Leave The Cookies, Not The Scraps
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What's this got to do with architecture? Read on. One of the simplest yet least understood concepts in architecture is that of pos...
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Monday, September 30, 2019
WHICH PATH FOR CHINA?
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CCTV headquarters building in Beijing. Architect: Rem Koolhaas. Many landmark Chinese buildings, such as the "bird's nest...
Wednesday, August 28, 2019
MISSION STYLE MANIA
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Mission style table by Gustav Stickley, c 1910. (Image copyright Metropolitan Museum of Art) When I was a kid, the height of furnitur...
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