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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!

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Architecture is lost at sea. And that may be a good thing.

A Cathedral for the 21st Century

Christopher Alexander has passed, this is a nice piece.

READ “God and the Architect”

“It is finished.”

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.

Awards Announcement

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Duo’s writing on ArchDaily

Creating Architectural Value through Aesthetics

The Future of Visualization May Be The Past

“Net Zero” Homes: Marketing Morality

The Architectural Pandemic of the “Stick Frame Over Podium” Building

Where is Architecture Going After the Pandemic Fades?

Susan Clinard: Artist and Inspiration

Duo Speaks at Alfred State

A Way to Teach Architecture

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STAIRS! Art, Craft, Code: a Terrific Video!

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Duo Talks About Design

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Architecture Is Human: Part III – Context: The Cauldron

Architectural Education Will Change Because The Way Architects Work Will Change

Alexa In Architecture

They Try to Publish… And Thus They Perish

History, Revolution & the Future of Architecture [Podcast]

Folly of Style in 2021

The Inane War Brewing In Architecture

Rethinking the Deck — After spending countless days in our homes, we’ve begun to view decks as a more versatile “room” of the house, with many design considerations.

“courtesy of Built Beautiful: An Architecture & Neuroscience Love Story with Narration by Martha Stewart“

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Cultures and Cities in Post-Covid 19 Times: A Conversation with Kurt Andersen

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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

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

      This is how some reacted

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

Duo Teaches Here

Building Beauty Instagram

Duo’s writing for the Common Edge design blog

Five Simple Rules For House Design That Drastically Lower Energy Costs

Don’t Blame Bad Buildings on a Lack of Money

How Christopher Alexander Changed Architecture—and Much More

The Architectural Pandemic of the “Stick Frame Over Podium” Building

Branding Is Not Architecture

Duo's presence on Mockingbird

Alone Again, Naturally.

Life, and Its Absence

Consider the Bees of the Air

What is Seen

Humbled by Achievement

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

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

“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

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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’

Nominated Finalist for 2018 CT Book Awards!

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:

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Duo unveils a new old way of thinking about Architecture

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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.

HOME: Losing History In Housing Booms

What Makes HOME?

Pretty Good HOME

HOME Away

BRAND Home

Duo’s Writing in Connecticut Magazine

Watch Out, New Haven

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

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

Easter In August

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.

40 Days

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.

For No Reason

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.

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.

Transactional Immunity

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.

Walking Home In the Blizzard

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

Flaw Flourishes

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.

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.

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