A Thank You to My Mentor

There are certain people in your life who help provide direction, education and passion. As I look back on my life it’s easy to recognize those people. There are some I didn’t recognize as a real mentor until years after my interactions with them. But...

Musing on the Mother Art

Frank Lloyd Wright said “The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.”  It’s an interesting quote.  When I was in design school I used that quote in an argument with my industrial design...

Residential Architecture

In 2009 and 2010 Architecture had the highest unemployment of any professional profession.  While I have not technically been unemployed because I am self-employed it feels the same when the phone never rings.  The housing bubble pop drove the cost of homes below the...

Communicating with Architects

An architect is said to be a man who knows a very little about a great deal and keeps knowing less and less about more and more until he knows practically nothing about everything, whereas, on the other hand, an engineer is a man who knows a great deal about very...

A Nice Write Up

A house I designed over 10 years ago is up for sale. The Realtor gave it a nice write up. It’s always been one of my favorites. It was fun to design. But more importantly, the clients were open to new ideas. They let us do our job. They gave lots of feedback and...