Posts from the ‘Absence’ Category

What Makes a Good House and Why? was the energized panel discussion at our May 19 B/A/D Talks at WBUR’s CitySpace.
We are pleased to note we know more than before!
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.
STAIRS! Art, Craft, Code: a Terrific Video!
The Inane War Brewing In Architecture
“courtesy of Built Beautiful: An Architecture & Neuroscience Love Story with Narration by Martha Stewart“
Coming Soon, See The Trailer Here
Christopher Alexander and the Inadequacy of Genius in the Architecture of the Coming Age
Duo’s first piece for Common Edge: Architecture Has Become a Lifestyle Choice
Read Duos Articles for CT Insider Here
Column: ‘Tear down’ culture makes it easy to forget about history
Column: The hazards of hype in a real estate boom
Column: How ‘The Harvard 5’ brought Mid-Century Modernism to New Canaan
Opinion: Those boxy apartment complexes sprouting up are ‘architectural fast food’
Column: Buy, sell or build? What to do in a real estate boom
“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.
Unorthodox Podcast: Birthright for Wasps?
Just the Two of Us
40 of 40
Anecdotes are history. Sort of. In theory my grandfather played professional soccer in Brooklyn in 1903. No record, but there weren’t many of much, there, then.
If we had control, Prohibition would be possible.
Right now, we are all obsessed with control, and that means we have a newly fresh understanding of our lack of it.
We murder more, suicide more, overdose more, die more and now obsess with pregnancy more than we have since before the Plague Sequestration was supposed to give us perspective.
Maybe it did.
Between Ash & Maundy I write in silence.
It happens to be Lent. I happen to be at Level 23. I most always do this every day anyway, but 90 minutes, every day, is a lot.
It was the summer of 1959.
I know this because my father always had August off. Every New York City lawyer did, then. My father had a fully travelable family, three children, me the youngest soon or just at 5: two well dressed, cropped others, the eldest just 15, and his snappy wife.
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.
Encouraging bad behavior is at the root of the human condition.
Teaching design three half days a week, (and prepping for almost as much time) I must work 7 days a week, or everything suffers. Fortunately, my children are grown and away at great distance from us, and my wife has a full time career and has a social life independent of our relationship. So I can abuse both.
It was snowing so hard that the 10 inches on the ground seemed like a warning. I had been in the office for 10 hours and had 1/2 hour of light left. So I walked.
It took 15 minutes, normally t10. But it took longer because I said hi to some old friends
My vision ended my application to be considered for the Navy ROTC program. My vision was 20-40, and the program, during the Vietnam War that was still raging, only wanted those who could be pilots, thus needed 20-20 vision for consideration. I asked for a waiver, and was denied.
7 weeks ago we did not have a clue. It was February. Those Chinese had a problem, again, but it was not our problem. And Wednesday was Ash Wednesday. I was buying Birthday Books for my wife, and launched on a mission.
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)