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By: PATRICIA
Architecture for Humanity
AIA, Redefining the Architect’s Role: Architects as Agents for Social Change: Speaker Spotlight – Cameron Sinclair. March 5-7, 2009, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FLA.
The Titles just jumped right off the page and held on.
I began researching and clicking from website to post to blog. This was my kind of design [...]
Tue, January 27 2009 » Inspiration » No Comments
I have been working hard on research about taking on the Architecture2030 challenge at home. The next products I am researching are washers and dryers. This has provided me quite a bit of information and quite a challenge.
I have a 20 year old large capacity, energy efficient pair right now. They are working fine but [...]
Thu, January 22 2009 » Products » No Comments
The header on this page has a series of photographs and the one for the Discoveries page is of a rather odd looking building with a steep green metal roof.
A few questions have come my way about that building in the picture. So I thought I would tell you about it.
It is the first Washington [...]
Tue, January 20 2009 » Discoveries » 2 Comments
He wrote backwards, from left to right! He was left-handed and always started every page from the right side and wrote to the left. When viewed in a mirror it reads in correct Italian even with the correct angle to the letters. I am sure he did this to avoid smearing [...]
Wed, January 14 2009 » Inspiration » No Comments
During Thanksgiving I went to California to visit my daughter. On the first full day of our visit we got out our bikes and helmets and went to the Napa Valley to explore Wine country. We had a great ride, though we missed the Charles Shultz Snoop Museum!
I took some pictures and then on Christmas [...]
Mon, January 12 2009 » On the Road » No Comments
There are certain things that an architect assumes you know and are practicing when they begin working on a new building or home project. A Renovation usually costs less than new building these days and when people understand the conversions they can make themselves it can save even more money and resources. So [...]
Fri, January 9 2009 » Inspiration » 3 Comments
By: DAVID WRIGHT
Even as a child, Architect Tom Sanford was dreaming things into creation.
Playing underneath his father’s drafting tables, Sanford drew patterns, schemes and plans. He also spent countless warm summer days on piles of dirt, building cities and roads and crafting wooden devices in his father’s workshop.
While he and his father didn’t see eye [...]
Thu, January 1 2009 » Inspiration » 12 Comments
