Collecting My Thoughts

I see that local architect Phil Markwood died December 20. He was well known for his churches in the Columbus area and was a Christian. I se...

In the late 1950's my college roommate Dora and I both dated architectural students named Bob whom we married. They both had taken ar...

Yesterday we carried three sacksful to the church library and Tuesday an unbelievable amount of books and magazines to the public library Fr...

When you live with an artist (or two if you count me), you have a lot of art in the closets (we also buy it), so we're always rearrangin...

200 responses were received from architects willing to survey affected neighborhoods damaged by the super storm Sandy. “Their job would be t...

Here’s an index of the architectural designs of Thomas Jefferson. Today I noticed an article about two Utah architects running for Congress...

There's a story in the Columbus Dispatch today about the firing of an architect on a $26 million middle school renovation by the Columbu...

Mr. Shannon is a residential architect from Waterloo, Iowa. For those of you outside the architectural field, that means his specialty is de...

In order to provide work for architects, this fellow writes at an architectural forum: "I would suggest that the AIA Housing KC develo...

You're a little late to the gate realizing how dependent architects are on the wealthy of this country, and also, I might add, the feder...

From AIA [American Institute for Architects] Angle, November 5, 2009 "Three weeks after AIA Board member Mickey Jacob, FAIA, testified ...

“James Cuno, president and director of the Art Institute of Chicago, walks us through the Museum's Renzo Piano-designed Modern Wing. He ...

The Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization is the leading organization promoting walkable, neighborhood-bas...

This little item came through today in AIArchitect, the "Kiplinger Connection." Economic Stimulus Was the economic stimulus a succ...

This is one of the titles in my bag of books ($1.00) from the Women Club's Sunday. Because we recently returned from "Bible lands...

Sounds like a conflict of interest to me. This is a "webinar" announcement received today. "How the Stimulus Funds impact com...

The painful fence straddle at Kiplinger Connection (AIA) The opening paragraph proclaims the stimulus WILL work (for architects). Then it’s ...

More money for government buildings The government gets to the green pork trough first. According to Architectural Digest $130 billion of th...

How to thrive in a bad economy And I didn't see a word about going for the green. How refreshing and innovative! This architectural fir...

Big Green Tent See what I mean about greengoes? Here's the Greenbuild 08 , November 19-21 hype "Next up was USGBC president and CEO...