Life is unceasing
– and we see flowers
if the sun is enough.
The sun is enough for life,
and life can be enough for flowers.
If there is enough sun
– there is often not
But Life Does Not Know That
so the unborn peonies are precious
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RECOGNITION OF GREAT YOUNG ARCHITECTS!
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Water, is taught by thirst.
Land — by the Oceans passed.
Transport — by throe —
Peace — by its battles told —
Love, by Memorial Mold —
Birds, by the Snow.
Duo is visiting UNIVALI September 2nd to 6th
Duo helps open ARKHE Magazine presenting his article “Architecture is Human”
Watch His Talk Here (Skip to minute 4:45)
STAIRS! Art, Craft, Code
The Inane War Brewing In Architecture
“courtesy of Built Beautiful: An Architecture & Neuroscience Love Story with Narration by Martha Stewart“
Christopher Alexander and the Inadequacy of Genius in the Architecture of the Coming Age
What Makes a Good House and Why?
“If religion continues to church-it-up in pretense and inside baseball, we become like Gilbert and Sullivan operettas: great good stuff, beloved by an ever-shrinking, self-congratulating group of lovely people.”
Architects Doug Patt and Stephen Chung share insider tips on how to design your dream home. Listen to Duo share his.
RECOGNITION OF GREAT YOUNG ARCHITECTS!
The video showing the only free, no application, any media, competition with feedback provided before submission, and public recognition of every entrant!
Unorthodox Podcast: Birthright for Wasps?
Just the Two of Us
BLOG WRITING TOPICS
It is what is called Holy Week. We do not confer holiness, but we call things names. When I googled “Easter” almost all the images were bunnies and chocolate. We define the word “Easter” this way, now.
Since June 13, 2022, Duo Dickinson, architect has been under threat of being sued by Temple Beth Tikvah. Apparently, 370 drawings, over 150 Project Meetings, over 200 field meetings, and over 5000 emails taking 5,367 hours were deemed inadequate, despite the finished result, built all through COVID.
“We are going to The Octagon House!” my mother chirped one afternoon. I was 4 years old; I think. If so, it was the summer of 1959. My father’s general law
practice of the mid-century allowed him to do trusts and estates, public offerings,
even a few criminal representations. But that general practice also allowed him to
represent the author Carl Carmer, too. And the Carmer’s invited the Dickinson’s to dinner, all of us, in the fully amazing “Octagon House” a Victorian marvel of domed ornament and material.
The last time I remember unabashed single gender based humor was “I Love Lucy” – a place so lame or so precious (depending on your perspective) that it lives on in black-and-white immortality.
They had us
when memory was
not knowing
was what they knew
now is not then
then either
what happens to the hole
when your foot leaves the water
4.5 months ago I was just fine.
But then, at the Spring Solstice, a 61.5 year old blood tube decided it’s inadequate middle layer had performed as long as it could: it blew, the tube blew, part of my brain was flooded and I lost (only) balance.
1) Plan. 2) Section. 3) Elevation
In the dim past, some sage architect looked at me and said:
“There is one way to describe a building, one sequence. Plan. Section. Elevation. In that order. One defines the other. Once you start there then they all change each other.”
I have no hobbies.
Oh, today I will plant perhaps a dozen begonias, 3 bleeding hearts, and assorted other summer plants. But this beautiful Saturday morning I will spend 3 hours driving to and spending time with strangers to look at a potential deck site for a couple. We have, as always, over 50 active projects in my architecture office, and I have 6 employees. Over 30 years.
It has been 4 months. I offered the situation to no one, but I wrote about it – twice, including a national venue. http://www.mbird.com/2017/05/an-irrational-lack-of-fear/
Please forgive a Thrombus coda, but a handful might appreciate it.
Only Consistency Allows Change
A Bishop and I talk.
Not often, but enough. Through these two years our jobs, to lead, listen, act and create have remained the same. But everything else has changed. Everywhere.
Is there beauty
– without control
the tighter the grip
the more human we are
knowing it
does not make it
making it
is not knowing it
Only Consistency Allows Change
A Bishop and I talk.
Not often, but enough. Through these two years our jobs, to lead, listen, act and create have remained the same. But everything else has changed. Everywhere.
“In the name of the Bee – And of the Butterfly – And of the Breeze – Amen!”
We are at the end of the Triduum – the three days of Easter. “Three Times The Charm” is chanted after two failures. Plato (and the Baha’i faith) defined the mind/body/spirit essence of humanity. Triple plays, third downs, Musketeers, trifectas now The Tennessee Three.
WHAT IS GONE IS BACK AGAIN Bruce Barber and I went to high school together 45 years ago: Over the last decade, Bruce has included me in his creative machinations, both of us trying to find connection to the world at a time of change and opportunity: This is a third iteration of a very human effort: (click here to read more)
Saved By Design
Wonderful
love to you