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Patterns, Beauty, Reality

September 18-19, 2020

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Postcards from the Pandemic 16 — Architect and Author Duo Dickinson

Demo By Neglect Duo is about 25 min in (for about 12 min)

Everything Is Changing: But Not Architecture’s “Deep State”

Read Duo’s Article for Archinect

Christopher Alexander and the Inadequacy of Genius in the Architecture of the Coming Age

Duo’s piece for MDPI

Coffee Hour at the Commons

EPISODE 85: CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL RENOVATIONS

Duo’s first piece for Common Edge: Architecture Has Become a Lifestyle Choice

      This is how some reacted

Looking for a ‘straw person’ in the high rise

Duo’s article for The Norwalk Hour

Architecture and our culture will be changing beyond recognition, but humanity is as constant as gravity

From a long time ago…

Duo’s work featured for Mercedes-Benz

Suburban Subversion

Published in the ShoreLine Times

Making way for the new presents us with the past

Read Duo’s Article for the New Haven Register

Greenwich train station plan is revealing in unintended ways

See Duo’s review of the Greenwich train station redevelopment plan

Duo Teaches Here

Building Beauty Instagram

This years HOME International Design Competition 

Listen to Duo’s contributions to the Clearstory Podcast

Duo’s writing for the Common Edge design blog

Covid-19 Has Raised the Question: Why Do We Design Buildings?

Is Virtual Architecture Inherently Disingenuous?

The Utter Folly of Certainty in Uncertain Times

Architecture and the Illusion of Control

Architecture Does Not Lead: It Follows

Duo's presence on Mockingbird

Smack In The Middle Of “Ordinary Time,” With You

No, Not That Cancel Culture

Masked Morality

Justification, Work, and Me: A Parable of River Jack Stones

God Never Left, We Just Didn’t Know He Was There

Read Duos Articles for CT Insider Here

Our Buildings Are Changing

The ’burbs have new appeal as long as fear drives decisionmaking

Duo Dickinson declares the winners and losers in the COVID-19 home

An architect wonders if COVID will forever alter the way we design homes

Thankful for a trade’s essential reality

Click Here: 10 years In, How Architecture Must Change

Diversity has become a uniform and cultural good, but it has largely vanished from the Canon of Architecture

READ “God and the Architect”

“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.”

The Next Church

WATCH VIDEO HERE

Lost New Haven: Traveling Through Time

Duo’s  Writing in the New Haven Register

Opinion: Can we prevent the loss of history in New Haven?

The Yale Armory is no more

Hidden New Haven architecture

Understand New Haven’s past or lose it

A ‘fascinating look’ at ‘Connecticut Architecture’

Duo’s writing on ArchDaily

Are Cities Over? Not So Fast

Christopher Alexander is Building a Legacy in Beauty

Swamp Yankee Architect: Recycling as a Lifestyle

What Is Sacred Space?

Architecture’s Vernacular In A Post-COVID-19 World

Nominated Finalist for 2018 CT Book Awards!

PR & Architecture: Design for the Client, Not The Image

History, Revolution & the Future of Architecture [Podcast]

Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Architecture [Podcast]

Click here to see Duo’s “Controversy of Beauty” lecture

Everything Is Changing: But Not Architecture’s “Deep State”

“Beauty” Has Become A Dirty Word

Duo Inducted!

THE TALK VIDEO:

Skip the first 7 minutes (sound)
Duo unveils a new old way of thinking about Architecture

GREEN Interviews: Duo Dickinson on Why Sometimes It’s Better to Stay and Fix Up Your Current Home or Investment Property | Global Real Estate Education Network (GREEN)

When Suburban Subversion Is The Best Answer– Duo Dickinson modernizes a midcentury ranch-style home.

NEXT Episode 88: Saved

Duo on the New England landscape

Video of Duo’s talk at the 2017 Mockingbird Conference on the nexus between the Sacred and the Secular

When Our Culture Changes…

Architects Doug Patt and Stephen Chung share insider tips on how to design your dream home. Listen to Duo share his.

Real Estate & The Home, Now

HOME In A Change Time

COVID Home

FUTURE HOME

HOME HEALTH

Watch Out, New Haven

If You Don’t Build It, They Will Not Come

Unorthodox Podcast: Birthright for Wasps?
Just the Two of Us

The Unavoidable Polymath

We see, hear, taste, feel, think, speak and act. There is exquisite integration. I see tiny children thinking with forming minds, garbling ideas, moving as they can in response: completely unaware anyone is judging them.

what… where

“It’s RIGHT, RIGHT Cross 1-14, on set – ON SET”

BANG

I clap, with all the others, snap around and get to the line.

Where am l?

Legacy

My father had the artery that splits to go down each leg break in 1972. He was 61.

I had an artery break going up into the place in my brain that controls balance in 2017. I was 61.

One Meal A Day

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.

Shedding Water = A Building

I believe that the prime difference between buildings and other things humans construct (bridges, sculptures, cars) is that a building’s prime directive is to protect its users from the weather. Thermal protection is pretty easy, as is making a wind break and providing shade: but shedding water can be dicey.

The Virtue of Doing Hard Things

I am not big on watching.

Thus kneeling or not, the NFL is but a TV show to me, nice if I am too done to do other things, even enjoyable, as I toil on my exercise bike in the dark.

Graduation

Living near New Haven, Connecticut, it is impossible to avoid the annual freak show that is Yale’s graduation.

Always before Memorial Day. Always elbowing away Townies. Always a competitive joust of cars, humans and dinner reservations.

Coda

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)

Duo talks on the Give And Take podcast about architecture, faith, and much else.