Being a Maker
“Are you a maker?” inquired my new boss (edit: almost a year and a half ago now). I replied with a blank expression (an excellent first impression, I’m sure). She […]
Category Archives: Theory
Succeeding at Failing
Well it’s been an interesting year. Unfortunately, very little of it appeared on this blog. As part of my commitment to write more in 2013, I took a plunge and […]
Human Elemants
In this post-(post?)industrial era, as in all eras, there is a culture and a counter-culture. And then there are hipsters, trying to out counter them all. But setting aside the […]
Perspective
I’m more than half a year graduated from my 5 year college, and it’s only finally starting to really hit me that I’m done. This sounds silly even to me. […]
Why being social makes people work better.
It’s a fairly common belief that people are at their most efficient when locked into solitary confinement, alone and able to work without distraction. I am coming to a growing […]
I may rename this blog “things I steal from gizmodo”
But if nothing else, this way I have a record of things I find cool and interesting. And my current favorite author who doesn’t write sci/fi (and I have very […]
This isn’t actually Venturi’s fault per se,
but I’m blaming his stupid “building as a duck” theory for all of the modern ones anyways. I don’t consider this creativity, I call it lazy people who don’t understand […]
Plans, glass and privacy
This is the first of the responses I had to write for my seminar class this semester. It is based off a reading by Colomina from the book “Privacy and […]
“I’m having fun…”
is one of my favorite lines from the game No One Lives Forever. The main character is a female spy in the 70s, who after being limited for ages to […]
The possible peril of air conditioning
I think I’m becoming a historicist. It worries me because it is such looked down on position to take in architecture these days. Corb’s* legacy remains; depending on the past […]
Chic + Geek 