Tuesday, December 31, 2019
MORE MEANINGLESS YEAR-END STATISTICS
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The Cleavers at the dining table, circa 1958: More Americans now claim to converse in the living room. Wally, is that true? Since the...
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Monday, December 23, 2019
TOUCHING ARCHITECTURE: Don't Leave Out The Tactile Dimension
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Berlin'e Brandenburg Gate: Go ahead and touch it. (Architects: Langhans and Schadow, completed 1791) “Please don’t touch!” ...
Wednesday, December 18, 2019
THE GRAMMAR OF ARCHITECTURE: Cut The Bull
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Calvin Coolidge: "You Lose." Unlike the present occupant of the White House, the thirtieth president of the United States, C...
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...
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