I had the good fortune to tour the new Morphosis designed Perot Museum of Science and Nature last week - two weeks before it opens to the public. As an architect I can appreciate the design ideas behind what is essentially a large cube floating over … [Continue reading]
Facebook Fan pages ... everybody seems to have them these days. I started mine around 2 years ago (I think - who really keeps track of these things? I'm certainly not scrolling back through 2 + years of Facebook posts.) Should you have one as well? … [Continue reading]
In what has become tradition around my house on Sunday nights, I am sitting down on the couch working on the computer and putting together a post or two for 'Life of an Architect.' There is one notable difference in tonight's routine ... I am not … [Continue reading]
Architectural Interns ~huuh ~ yeah What are they good for? Absolutely nothing~ awwwhuh-uhhuhh [if you don't know the Edwin Starr version of the song 'War' you need to go here after reading this post] . . Other than slowing things … [Continue reading]
It is Sunday night and I am so tired I almost didn't write this post (the horror!!) It's been a busy weekend and today has been a really busy day ... but we have to talk about utility rooms because they can't talk about themselves. I spent 4 hours … [Continue reading]
This weekend is the 2012 AIA Dallas Tour of Homes and this year, we have a house that is participating on the tour. There are 8 houses altogether, and all of them designed by architects. I chaired this committee a few years ago and it was a fun one … [Continue reading]
