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Laughter

The (back of the) envelope, please

March 6, 2008

If you were awarded the architectural commission for W’s presidential library, what would you design? That’s the question that the Chronicle of Higher Education asked its readers, inviting them to send in design ideas on the backs of envelopes. This week, it published several of the approximately 120 entries submitted. As discussed in a short [...]

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Dear Architects

July 27, 2007

I have never claimed that this blog is about architecture. However, I am an architect, and once upon a time I wrote fairly frequently about buildings I designed, the construction site in which I lived, and the sad state of housing for the less fortunate in this country. A couple of months ago, The Architect, [...]

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Kitchen Fumbles

February 6, 2006

While Paul and I are not football fans, we spend most Super Sundays with our TV tuned to the game. Many years, the TV is muted save for during the commercial breaks. This year, however, our local team made it to the Super Bowl, and it seemed our civic duty to pay some attention to [...]

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Imitation

December 30, 2005

A warm Christmas Eve afternoon in my parents’ back yard. After much running and jumping, my nephew Reed retired to Melanie’s lap. Why would one slightly sleepy two-year-old boy make such a face when his aunt began snapping pictures of him and his mommy?

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Cheese, Gromit!

October 11, 2005

On Sunday, Paul and I went to see “Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.” We’ve been fans of Nick Park’s short films for years, and had been looking forward to the first feature-length film starring the cheese-loving inventor Wallace and his intrepid dog Gromit. Happily, the movie is playing at Seattle’s Cinerama, our [...]

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How to photograph a building

May 19, 2005

You, too, can take stunning photographs of buildings! Just follow these simple guidelines: 1. Select a building with a western exposure. Unless you are at the north or south pole, this is not difficult to do. If the building you choose – for example, this nice turn of the (last) century house – is attractive [...]

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Revenge of the Spellchecker

May 18, 2005

Computerized spellchecking was designed to improve our lives. Sadly, one never knows when a spellchecker, like any technology, may be turned to the Dark Side. Many humans are no match for the spellchecker, and can be swayed by its evil suggestions. In today’s Seattle PI review of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, [...]

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Choose your own deity

May 11, 2005

Have you found that the organized religions you’ve tried just haven’t worked for you? Perhaps the right spiritual home for you is in this new church: Scientology Losing Ground to New Fictionology LOS ANGELES�According to a report released Monday by the American Institute of Religions, the Church of Scientology, once one of the fastest-growing religious [...]

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