Through the Oculus

"Terunobu Fujimori has thrown a punch of a kind no one has ever seen before at 'modernism.'" (Kengo Kuma) He spent most of...

I passed “ Construction Documents & Services ”! I received the score report in the mail today with a nice “PASS” on the top. This leave...

Today I took my seventh (and last!) ARE: Programming, Planning & Practice.  I felt pretty comfortable with the material covered so I hop...

Light is an important element in all architecture. Le Corbusier said, “Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms...

In Islam, water is seen as life-giving, sustaining, and purifying. The Qur’an states, “from water every living creature was created.” Water...

At work we are entering a design competition for a hotel in the Middle East. Even though it is sometimes a bit of post-rationalization for ...

"The parking garage is a peculiar twentieth-century phenomenon. The one in New Haven comes from the design of throughways....I wanted t...

I thought I would post a few more images from my photo shoot last week with Ken .  Like those that I posted earlier, these photos are from ...

Yesterday I took my sixth ARE:  Construction Documents and Services.  The multiple choice portion of the test was quite difficult, so I am n...