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Read Duos Articles for CT Insider Here
Connecticut’s Architectural Legacy Continues
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
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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
Architectural Heros Aren't Only of the Past
Are We Air Conditioning Our Planet to Death
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
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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Give & Take Podcast
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