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Walls walls walls

Walls are ubiquitous as cell phone clutching is for anyone under thirty. Almost anything in front of us is a wall. Look up now. Is it the bus front (wall) or the wall in your bedroom? Perhaps you are at a park and there is a wall you are sitting on? Or at a cafe with…

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Peeling back and opening up

Many projects that have a giant impact on our current human condition use transparency, a physical implication that is meant to represent openness. Millennials value openness as one of the pillars of our social and demographic makeup, along with trusting our friends and, even though we have been labeled self-absorbed, being socially consciousness. For architecture…

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Book Review – What Is Architecture?

There is an admirer I have in Austin. He is an architect who designs mostly single family houses in Austin neighborhoods and does a wonderful job of melding contemporary ideas into his work without being stark or cheap. You may think, really? These are your tenements? But yes, really, they are. It is quite a…

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Shifts in residential typologies

How has residential typology changed and what are the impacts? For one, we aren’t adding new single-family housing stock. This halt is unprecedented in US history until now. Secondly, to meet the demand for more housing stock with greater density, modern cosmopolitan cities like Seattle are investing in more town-homes and condominiums. This changes the…

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Open Source Architecture

This book came to me by chance. I followed a new instagram account: designboom. I hardly read my feed, but that day I happened to surf a minute. There was a designboom post showing their summer reading list. I could only make out one title (the point was not to actually give real information, but to see…

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What kind of trees you can plant

There is a master tree list the city of Seattle made and last edited in 2011 I am referencing here. The table lists trees in order of size (large to small) and gives information like their spread, their mature height, if they are suitable planted under wires, if it’s native, minimum strip width needed if…

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 Architecture & Design

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In architecture, details are a dead give away to what’s vogue. Rococo details are lavish, no expense spared. Beaux Arts details are characterized by overstatement. Modern architectural details reveal the structure as something beautiful in its utilitarianism and efficiency because detailing was for the bourgeoisie. A moniker of architecture today that floats around is the absence of details. Leading architects seem to…

– Lack of detail or de-cluttering the clutter?

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Many projects that have a giant impact on our current human condition use transparency, a physical implication that is meant to represent openness. Millennials value openness as one of the pillars of our social and demographic makeup, along with trusting our friends and, even though we have been labeled self-absorbed, being socially consciousness. For architecture…

– Peeling back and opening up