Music and Cats

Sometimes what I read makes me want to bang my head against the wall. Perhaps if I destroyed enough brain cells, I would not continue to be so stunned and horrified by the ineptitude of the federal government’s response to the homelessness caused by hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
With the brain cells I have, however, it […]

One month ago, Paul and I were enjoying a weekend in Portland, Oregon. I’ve worked every weekend since, though I have high hopes for no work this weekend, as I have a big deadline on Friday. In the meantime, a few photos from a month ago.

Our weekend in Portland was the perfect mini-vacation for an […]

It seems that New Orleans’ mayor is interested in replacing historical neighborhoods like this:

with crappy suburban tract housing like this:

I wish that I were surprised by this, but I’m not.
Optimism is in short supply here. And as people begin to sift through the wreckage left by Hurricane Katrina, there is a creeping sense that the […]

Yesterday was the opening day of the Mississippi Renewal Forum, a gathering of 200 architects, urban planners and other professionals who will be working to develop a regional plan to rebuild the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The group is meeting for six days in the hotel of one of Biloxi’s oceanside casinos. In one of many […]

Each weekday morning, I check ArchNewsNow, an architectural new aggregator, to see what’s being written about architecture in the English-speaking world press. This morning, I was momentarily surprised to see my father’s name in the listings. ANN had picked up his editorial in yesterday’s Houston Chronicle:
Let’s all imagine a new and very livable Gulf Coast
by […]