Over the last couple of months I’ve spent a bit of time thinking about and designing with used shipping containers as building blocks for single family homes. This is a niche in architecture that has been getting a lot of press on sites
You can probably make some safe assumptions of what garners the attention of a young college aged male traveling in a foreign country … and you would be right, but I’ll save the stories about my discotheque experiences for my travel companions. This will be a different trip.
Harmony – it’s a nice word.
It’s nice to say because it has a hard consonant sound and the beginning and a soft vowel sound at the end. That resonates with me because the word sounds like what it means – a pleasing arrangement of parts.
In what could clearly be billed as a Battle Royal, I present Architects vs. Hippies in a death cage match pitting two classic stereotypes. Who will win? Will there even be a winner?
A ridiculous amount of information crosses my desk – even more so since I starting writing this blog. Magazines, emails, letters … paper, digital, phone calls, vendors – it never stops. I actually like it, it’s like a non-stop carnival for my imagination. One thing that I see more and more these days are designs for future cities.
I should preface this by saying I am not complaining … but I receive a lot of emails from people asking for advice
There is no question in my mind that I made the right decision when I was 5 years old to become an architect. Despite having been at this for a while, some things you just have to discover for yourself.
You might remember that I have written some blog posts on my house that focus particularly on the crazy light fixtures that I have:
What is creativity? Are some people creative whereas others are “uncreative”?
Just as any self-respecting architect before embarking on a trip, I am doing some research. I am leaving for my trip to Spain in 18 days and in an effort to maximize my experience, I am studying up on where I am going.
