The Blog Spot
Here are varied writings and musings.
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Articles
Conversations with Pierluigi Serraino, Interior Design, March 30, 2007
Designing Public Consensus: A Conversation with Barbara Faga, FASLA, June 12, 2007
Reference This, June 27, 2006
Op-Ed: Modern Ironies: Notes on Losing the Bunshaft's Travertine House (1963), September 13, 2005
A New Yet Familiar Neighbor: Goldman School of Public Policy UC Berkeley by Architectural Resources Group, January 30, 2003
ARTICLES FROM arcCA:
Survivor: The Ultimate Design Review Process, Issue 07.2 (1017 k)
Institutional Patronage: an Interview with David Meckel, FAIA, Issue 07.1 (2444 k)
Charles "Duke" Oakley, FAIA: an Interview, Issue 06.4 (755 k)
A Unique Memorial for Albert C. Martin, Jr., Issue 06.4 (155 k)
What the Drawings Don't Show: Four Recent Buildings, Issue 06.1 (1182 k)
On Set with Glenda Rovello, Issue 05.2 (252 k)
Articles from AIA San Francisco's LINE magazine:
From One Room Out to the World
How do architects understand their work in the context of social responsibility and how do they address it?
For-Profit Techniques Help a Not-for-Profit Architectural Firm: A Profile of Asian Neighborhood Design and Rose McNulty, AIA
One possibility for architects interested in socially responsible architecture is to work for a community design center or a not-for-profit design firm.
On a Mission: A Profile of Herman & Coliver: Architecture
The firm focuses almost exclusively on affordable housing and, more recently, on work for other nonprofit clients, such as independent schools and synagogues.
Healing Stories: Renovating San Francisco's Ronald McDonald House
Architects often address their desire to help others through volunteer work.
California Dreaming
Review of Eichler: Modernism Rebuilds the American Dream.
Where the Global and Local Intersect: A Conversation with Enrique Norten, Hon. FAIA
Enrique Norten, Hon. FAIA, spoke at the Monterey Design Conference on Saturday September 13, 2003. Kenneth Caldwell caught up with him afterwards.
Further Readings, or Everyday 101
When the LINE editorial board started talking about the architecture of everyday, we couldn't really agree on what that meant. So we did what most architects and writers do: we bought books that we may never finish reading. These are some of the books we looked at.
Other Musings
The Gates
February 2005
It was almost eleven o'clock Friday night when I arrived in New York. As my taxi came down 60th Street towards the park, I turned to look for "The Gates" and the first thought that came to mind was that they resembled a large advertising campaign without a written language. In the next moment I was surprised how shiny they were - even in the darkness.
I woke up early Saturday and went to my hotel window where I could just see a little corner of the park with orange ribbons dotting the landscape. I felt like a kid again, like I was seeing the park for the first time. For three days I walked with old friends who had come from all over the country.
As soon as I entered the park I was struck that all the gateposts stood up straight despite the uneven ground plane. The feet were a little clumsy, but reminded me of the project's impermanence. Over and over I kept thinking how Buddhist it was. All that work for something so simple, so infinite. No center, just the being there. Few people were rushing; the entire day was like a little European village just before dinner when the townspeople promenade. Everywhere I went people were respectful and kind. People who would never have met otherwise stopped to chat and share a moment together.
On Monday morning everything changed. Snow covered the tops of each gate and evened the color across the park. Children flew down snowbanks in plastic toboggans. Within a few hours we had all returned home and within a few days the Gates were gone.
My year-end letter reflects on a wonderful trip my partner Paul and I took the winter of 2004.
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