Music and Cats

An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Most architects I know love to travel. While we enjoy experiencing different scenery, cultures and food, we often go places to look at architecture. Cameras and sketchbooks in hand, we make pilgrimages to […]

Which would you prefer?
a) a tomatownhouse in the hills
b) a pumpkin pied-a-terre in the woods

More images from people playing with food and buildings at Edible Architecture 6, an online Photoshop competition. I’ve been told this link triggers pop-under ads; you have been warned.

We’ve all waited for letters - from sweethearts, from colleges, from employers. Usually, the letters for which we’re waiting come directly to us. Occasionally, however, the letters that are most important are addressed to someone else.
When the fax machine at my office beeped yesterday morning, I found a one-page letter in the tray. Here’s what […]

Last October and November, I wrote about the large addition I’d designed to a small Craftsman cottage, and my disappointment with the changes that the builders made during construction. A year later, the remodel is almost complete. The construction has taken so long in part because the two men who bought and were remodeling the […]

When I arrived home this evening, I found a new comment on my post - now almost two months old - about houses in New Orleans’ Bywater neighborhood. The commenter was a New Orleanian whom I’ve never met. He left no URL, so I assume that he’s not a blogger. How had he found my […]