Turning in relentless optimism
The continuum of existence in which our designs find themselves. In the day, architecture instruction would implore us to consider “context” in our designs. They meant the neighboring buildings. Today I have come to expand the notion of context to mean experiences: the neighboring moments in time, though and intention.
Three years ago I made a commitment to return to a dedicated ecological concern professionally. To that moment, my practice in other firms and within Landwave had adopted renovation and efficiency in practice through better IT as erstwhile ecological contributions. While tech driven practice efficiency does not have direct ecological impact, it is a good […]
Jonah Lehrer points out that early copyright law created the notion that ideas are valuable. The claim of the legal world is that ideas are valuable enough to provide legal protection. But this is a tricky point. I’d like to know if the economic data bears that out. Someone help me attribute this story. An […]
I spend a lot of time heads down in the daily work of making a living an, raising my kids and enjoying my life. I spend a bunch of other time in the heady world of ideas. That world takes me home, to our little island planet in the far arm of a tiny galaxy. […]
I just heard the On Point Radio show on how some cities are dealing with the recession. Newark, NJ mayor Cory Booker and Washington, DC Mayor Adrian Fenty both discussed their administrations approaches to problems unique to deep recessions such as this. Additionally both cities face what might be seen as “common” urban problems: crime […]