Through the Oculus

Sometimes you have to plan an architectural pilgrimage well in advance. Like purchasing tickets for a tour of Philip Johnson's Glass H...

I never imagined that my first opportunity to see an Oscar Niemeyer building would not be in his native Brazil, but instead about 5000 mile...

One year ago today, inspired by a trip to Italy and a visit to the Pantheon, I wrote my first post on Through the Oculus . If you have bee...

Kim and I have been "nesting" at home over the past few weeks as we prepare to adopt four children from Brazil. (Read about that ...

"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...