architecture

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Jun
Saturday, March 26th. The shoes I wore to meet the builder.

Saturday, March 26th. The shoes I wore to meet the builder.

Numbers are scary. Numbers signifying your weight, your blood pressure, your bank account balance, your age. Numbers, as it turns
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12
Jun
On starchitects, domestic violence, and the Stockholm Syndrome.

On starchitects, domestic violence, and the Stockholm Syndrome.

Le Corbusier. Frank Lloyd Wright. Louis Kahn. Great architects. Lauded visionaries. Master womanizers and manipulators. The film “My Architect”, a
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12
Jun
Friday, December 11. The shoes I wore to meet the architect.

Friday, December 11. The shoes I wore to meet the architect.

I like wood. Concrete. Tile. Marble. Steel. Mullioned glass. I especially like concrete formed to look like wood. Will likes
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12
Jun
Friday, November 6th. The shoes I wore to meet the architect.

Friday, November 6th. The shoes I wore to meet the architect.

You learn a lot about things you didn’t know you didn’t know when designing a house. Like shear
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12
Jun
Tuesday, Sept 8th. The shoes I wore to meet the architect.

Tuesday, Sept 8th. The shoes I wore to meet the architect.

In my life, I have been told I resemble a prettier version of Allison Janney; easily passed off as Katharine
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12
Jun
Friday, August 21. The shoes I wore to meet the architects.

Friday, August 21. The shoes I wore to meet the architects.

A set of Copic markers is not cheap. But good tools are valued in the Office Design studio, where we
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12
Jun
Wednesday, July 29. The shoes I wore to meet the architects.

Wednesday, July 29. The shoes I wore to meet the architects.

Would have been these shoes, except that I didn’t meet with the architects (note: it’s plural now). I
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12
Jun
Wednesday, June 3. The shoes I wore to meet the architect.

Wednesday, June 3. The shoes I wore to meet the architect.

My house is not a piece of software. It is not a computer or an application program. But it is
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12
Jun
On Microsoft Excel, Big Software, and Brazilian Favelas.

On Microsoft Excel, Big Software, and Brazilian Favelas.

I often telling people designing for Excel is more like urban design than anything else. Because like a city, big
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12
Jun
On the yonic and the phallic.

On the yonic and the phallic.

I have never had any desire to go to Dubai. But that changed this week when I listened to this
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