Posts from the ‘Not As Fat’ Category

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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.

A Great Thing in New Haven

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A Great Good Thing:

Turner Brooks and I are interviewed about 50 minutes into this video

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“Make It Right” Goes Wrong in New Orleans

The Latest in ArchDaily

Duo leads a diverse panel that talks about sacred space

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“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”

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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

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Building Beauty Instagram

Duo’s writing for the Common Edge design blog

Architecture and the Age of Creative Disruption

The Next Generation of Architects Will Remake How We Make Things

Paige Rense, Architectural Digest, and the End of 20th Century Architecture

Maquettes in Architecture: The Forgotten Joys of Model-Making

Architecture Misses Charles Moore

Duo's presence on Mockingbird

Her Grace Is All She Has

Wind (and God)

A Year of Lent (and Counting)

Now What? On the President, the Pandemic, and Love

Before Christ

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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

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

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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’

Duo’s writing on ArchDaily

The Religion of the City: Cars, Mass Transit and Coronavirus

2020: The End of the 20th Century in Architecture

“Make It Right” Goes Wrong in New Orleans

Are Cities Over? Not So Fast

Christopher Alexander is Building a Legacy in Beauty

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!

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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 to us

HOME talking

CHANGING HOME

2021 HOME: Where Are We

THANKS-HOMING

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.

A Year In Lent Soon Done

Life is the same, life is different. There are tragedies, pains and joys, pretty much as there have always been. But the last calendar year started with a break in the world’s normal living that is not over. But there is now a horizon. Over the last 13 months I wrote 89 thoughts triggered, based, complemented and danced with Emily Dickinson. Some are good. All are short.

Maybe you have the time, for a while, to read…

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.

United

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”.

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.

Built Beautiful

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.”

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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