Tuesday, April 28, 2020
AFFORDABLE HOUSING: The Invisible Answer, Part III
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Is this your mental image of a manufactured home? Believe it or not, prior to the late 1930s, people who lived in travel trailers full-...
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Tuesday, April 21, 2020
AFFORDABLE HOUSING: The Invisible Answer, Part II
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Arthur Sherman's "Covered Wagon" trailers featured solid walls instead of canvas flaps—a modest start to today's ...
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
AFFORDABLE HOUSING: The Invisible Answer Part I
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Is this any way to house people in the richest nation on earth? (Image: Mark Brown/Chicago Sun-Times) Rising homelessness and the ...
Tuesday, April 7, 2020
THE "CALIFORNIA" FINGER-PLAN SCHOOL: Incubator for the Baby Boom
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Burton Elementary School, San Fernando, California (1951). With its long rows of classrooms and covered outdoor corridors, it...
Monday, March 23, 2020
CORONAVIRUS—And The Things We Fear
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Author's Note: In this unhappy climate of coronavirus-induced fear, I thought I would reprint an old piece I wrote way back in the halcy...
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
WHY DO ARCHITECTS HAVE THOSE TRIPLE NAMES?
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Frank Lloyd Wright: Did he start the fashion for triple-barreled architect names? (Image: Mike Siegel, The Seattle Times) At some tim...
Monday, March 2, 2020
ARCHITECT ESSAYS: How's That Again?
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A treehouse hotel in Hana: It's one thing to have architects design them, but quite another to let them write about it. In Hana, ...
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