Posts from the ‘Real Life Survival Guide’ Category

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Swiftly To Lent

Driving long distances requires pop music. NPR can be sleep inducing, and silence can make a minute seem like an hour. But the relentless beat of pop music and hook line lyrics stop the droopy eye syndrome immediately.

Duo helps open ARKHE Magazine presenting his article “Architecture is Human”

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A Cathedral for the 21st Century

Christopher Alexander has passed, this is a nice piece.

READ “God and the Architect”

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

“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

“New Practices” in Architecture are Just an Evolution

Nameless Buildings Affect Us

Is Good Architecture Synonymous with Beauty?
 

Susan Clinard: Artist and Inspiration

Duo Speaks at Alfred State

A Way to Teach Architecture

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STAIRS! Art, Craft, Code

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Duo Talks About Design

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“

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

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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]

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

What’s With Our Obsession with Stacked-Boxes?

Building Busts Increase the Value of Architectural Beauty

Zombie Projects Come Alive in a Real Estate Boom

Duo's presence on Mockingbird

Suburban Jesus

When Words Defy Death

The Impossibility of Zen

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Column: Buildings should go beyond “accessibility” to “visitability”

Column: Building booms create more ugly homes

Column: Technology has changed how we buy our homes

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

What Makes a Good House and Why?

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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.”

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.

THANKSHOME

Gendered Home?

What Is “Good Architecture?”

HOME for the rest of us

HOME as Architecture

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

Only Consistency Allows Change

A Bishop and I talk.

Not often, but enough. Through these two years our jobs, to lead, listen, act and create have remained the same. But everything else has changed. Everywhere.

Pearl Harbor

The morning of December 7 saw the instant existential catastrophe of World War end that life of control and entitlement. George had graciously retired as a lieutenant from his Army ROTC commission in 1940, so he immediately sought to escape the draft and rightfully renew that commission as an officer.

“Karening”

The last time I remember unabashed single gender based humor was “I Love Lucy” – a place so lame or so precious (depending on your perspective) that it lives on in black-and-white immortality.

All That Is Wrong

I will never understand my parents much beyond the truth that they were God’s children, just as I am. No better, and no worse. But the damage is abiding, more than twenty years after both of my parents have died. Neither the damage done or the grace received is deserved.

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.

1) Plan. 2) Section. 3) Elevation

In the dim past, some sage architect looked at me and said:

“There is one way to describe a building, one sequence. Plan. Section. Elevation. In that order. One defines the other. Once you start there then they all change each other.”

Occupation Preoccupation

I have no hobbies.

Oh, today I will plant perhaps a dozen begonias, 3 bleeding hearts, and assorted other summer plants. But this beautiful Saturday morning I will spend 3 hours driving to and spending time with strangers to look at a potential deck site for a couple. We have, as always, over 50 active projects in my architecture office, and I have 6 employees. Over 30 years.

Astonishing

It has been 4 months. I offered the situation to no one, but I wrote about it – twice, including a national venue. http://www.mbird.com/2017/05/an-irrational-lack-of-fear/

Please forgive a Thrombus coda, but a handful might appreciate it.

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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