Through the Oculus

We ran upon this nifty piece of good design this year in Curitiba , Brazil's Christmas City. It is made entirely of used soda bottles, ...

In 1954, Modern designers Charles and Ray Eames created their famous House of Cards picture deck. In 2009, I introduced my 4 year old son...

Kim and I have been in Curitiba, Brazil, since the beginning of November when we arrived to adopt our four beautiful children (visit ou...

"A tree is our most intimate contact with nature." (George Nakashima) A few years ago, Kim's uncle, a woodworker, gave us a co...

Well, it has been a long time coming, but today I submitted my application for an architectural licensure. Yes, I am finally going to be a ...

"It is the pervading law of all things organic and inorganic, of all things physical and metaphysical, of all things human and all thin...

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...