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Architecture Without Architects: The Cut-Paste Typology Taking Over America
10 Years Post-Recession, a Resilient Generation Makes Practice Work for Them
The Intimate Work of Designing A Home
Architecture and Criticism: By the People, for the People?
Good Architecture Is Not Produced by Rejecting History—Or by Replicating it, Either
Design Your Dream Home
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Architects Doug Patt and Stephen Chung share insider tips on how to design your dream home. Listen to Duo share his.
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Coffee Hour at the Commons
Where faith meets daily life in conversations, stories, and even sermons.
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Duo’s writing for the Common Edge design blog
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Unorthodox Podcast: Birthright for Wasps?
Just the Two of Us 
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“They were marveling at their newly refreshed home over Thanksgiving. They are in the discovery mode we were in when we spent our first year in our new home. Seeing all your surprises, and chortling contentedly over them.”
days till spring
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I was in a room of architects yesterday.
These are the architects who have done enough, then cared enough, to do enough more to seek a letter: “F” – Fellow. It is important for those who care, but only those who care. 
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41 years ago it was dark.
“Daylight Savings” had not happened, but I was fully deficit spending any time I could steal. In the last 10 months I had done almost everything except what was the central purpose of going to college – my undergraduate thesis.
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10 years ago I rectified eating one extra Milano a day for 30 years (literal calorie count) and dropped 1/3 of myself. It took 8 months, but more it took irrational dedication. Ending a defendable lifestyle of eating no classic junk, but inhaling Triscuits, while working out 6 days a week required my inner Facist.
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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.
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In the Mid-Century Central Westchester was carpet-bombed by homes on subdivisions.
Zoning tried to cope, defining sizes of lots, setbacks to their borders, how much land they could cover, even the amount of finished space you could build. But the County also facilitated the avability if infrastructure: water, septic, electricity, transportation, joined with massive road building to criss-cross vacant former farmland to create dense quilts of individual homes most built in the generation after World War 2.
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40 of 40
Some things are once in a life.
The last few years I have opted to write 40 times during Lent, everyday, in silence, on the bike for 90 minutes – ending at Holy Week.
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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)
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