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When Connecticut became Modern, at least in its architecture
The ‘Brand’ of Architecture is About to Change
New Haven’s Temple Street Garage to Brighten Up-In a Big Way
Builders are taking a on chance smaller floor plans, simpler designs
Home architecture: ‘Traditional’ and ‘Modern’ designs are coming together
In a time of climate change, CT homeowners embrace the old-fashioned screen porch
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“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.”
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Duo’s writing for the Common Edge design blog
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Duo's writing on Arch Daily
The Two Most Dangerous Words in Architecture: Style and Beauty
Hudson Yards and Notre-Dame: A One-Two Punch of Megalomania
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
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.
Coffee Hour Podcast
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Coffee Hour at the Commons
Where faith meets daily life in conversations, stories, and even sermons.
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Unorthodox Podcast: Birthright for Wasps?
Just the Two of Us 
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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.
days till spring
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“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?
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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