Archive for March, 2010

It ain’t easy being green

Monday, March 29th, 2010

For reasons I'm not going to get into here I've been thinking about "sustainability" in architecture - and though the word has become something of a marketing catchphrase, if given a bit of thought it is not as superficial and cynical as it might sound. It doesn't all end with ...

End the wars

Saturday, March 20th, 2010

As a former US Navy sailor who served during the first war against Iraq, I just wanted to throw in my two cents worth on the anniversary of The Dumbest War Ever Fought by the US. The argumentation for US forces remaining in Iraq is really non-existent - the Iraqis ...

What came out of it

Friday, March 5th, 2010

Ron Witte's guest studio ended yesterday - considering my graphics, it's no surprise that Bob Somol led off his comments with Sarah Palin, with Italian restaurants as a back-up. Anyway, here's the goods, as they say - the idea was to use form and graphics to create spaces that connected ...

Ron Witte

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

Having a four-day guest studio exercise with Ron Witte (http://wwarchitecture.com). We're talking about intersecting spaces that allow you to be in two rooms at the same time. In the exercise, we're manipulating form and graphics to do just that - here's my second attempt: Edit: Here's what came out of it ...