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architecture

A collection of 157 issues

Wednesday, October 8th. The shoes I wore to meet the architect....

It is that time. That time of transition. That time when one must think about the meta and the micro. When one must start thinking about materials and textures. And Timelessness. And Visual Power. And designing a house that ages beautifully. Massimo Vignelli offers a manifesto: Visual Power We say

Here comes trouble. Her name is Ada.

“Good designers make trouble.” – Tibor Kalman Ada Louise Huxtable wasn’t a designer, but she made trouble. About design. For designers. Sometimes, I’m ashamed by how much I don’t know. I think I’ve heard of Ada Louise Huxtable, but would never have been able to place her

On loving Frederick, part one.

Smith Tower, as shot from a friend’s loft in Pioneer Square, Seattle. Photo by Callie Neylan, 2006. On July 23, 2011, I recited these design stories at the Boston Globe for my friends at Ink, stories inspired by the work of Frederick Law Olmsted and the impact his legacy

Friday, October 18th. The shoes I wore to meet the architect.

1 How to draw a line. Architects use different lines for different purposes, but the line type most specific to architecture is drawn with an emphasis at the beginning and at the end. This practice anchors a line to the page and gives a drawing conviction and punch. If your

Urban interaction.

In my ongoing thinking about the city as an interface – as an operating system, if you will, of this thing we call Earth – I picked up a book I bought while in grad school: Universal Principles of Design. It lists a multitude of various design elements and principles to consider

Big Box Belligerence.

From the Seattle P-I: On Architecture: The design of enormous warehouse stores brings out the worst in people By LAWRENCE CHEEK Published: February 28, 2006 SEATTLE, Feb. 28 – I don’t often mention myself in connection with the buildings I critique, but this time it’s relevant because I’ve

Friday, November 14. The shoes I wore to meet the architect.

The trim. I prefer post-modern. Will prefers the traditional. And, lucky for Mies, we both prefer dogs, despite all this. We are starting to think about materials and surfaces, and interviewing builders now to get a price estimate to take to the mortgage lender. We need a builder who can

Lovely entry way.

, originally uploaded by callieo. I want one like it when we remodel or buy another house.

A Line in the Sand.

From a recent article in the New York Times, summarizing architecture’s role in creating the wall serving to cordon off the West Bank: In certain respects, the proposed 450-mile barrier is a model of planning reduced to its most primitive – the desire to divide black from white, us from

The work of A. Aubrey Bodine.

Will and I went to breakfast a couple of weekends ago at our favorite restaurant in Baltimore so far, Golden West. It's in Hampden, a really cool Baltimore neighborhood about four miles from our house. Kind of like a mix between Seattle's Fremont and Ballard neighborhoods,