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Anyone who wishes to participate is welcome. Please contact Karen Erickson at kerickson.duos@gmail.com to express your interest and receive further information about how to join online lectures and presentations.
Schedule
Launch-March 1
Preliminary designs due – March 8
Feedback is sent to students – March 11
Final project due – March 23
Project presentation – March 26
Specific Requirements
YOUR HOUSE
600 sq ft/66.7 sq m on a flat site anywhere, but specified
No budget
FORMAT: one square image, digital in any media – photos of model, scans of drawings,
CAD, Revit – anything, but square and 600dpi x 600dpi
Digitally submitted, no paper
For more details: https://www.buildingbeauty.org/home-summary
A Great Good Thing:
Turner Brooks and I are interviewed about 50 minutes into this video
“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
“From This Old House, Clearstory is a window that sheds light on the surprising stories behind our homes.”
Listen to Duo’s contributions to the Clearstory Podcast
Read Duos Articles for CT Insider Here
How COVID-19 ended the 20th century architecture
Time travel at home in the winter of COVID-19
Aesthetic concepts and their impact on charity homes in New Orleans and New Haven
The blight fight in Connecticut’s neighborhoods
Living in history and the old house appeal
“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
8 of 40
The Wind — tapped like a tired Man —
And like a Host — “Come in”
I boldly answered — entered then
My Residence within
Yesterday, for the unnumbered time, millions of people were apoplectically upset. Someone was not punished who had been, is, and will be a fully disgusting person, who may be responsible for deaths, and is surely responsible for hateful anger and violence. He will be prosecuted in many courts, and the Constitution that would not punish him in governmental sanction facilitated him being removed from power.
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.
We can only be in one of two places: “With” or “Without.”
The expectation is that we are better “With”: love, warmth, food, family, thought. And while alive we are flooded with all our “With’s”.
But all of us end “Without”.
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.
Sometimes connections happen. I see a book, I use it in a talk (or six). The author and I meet. Then dozens of others connect. Then a movie. Maybe a movement, or least a stream of ideas we have ignored. This is good. Watch for it on PBS. “courtesy of Built Beautiful: An Architecture & Neuroscience Love Story with Narration by Martha Stewart.”
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)