Follow the link. Pre-conceived and un-scientific requirements lead to unintended consequences. Regulation would limit use of bullet proof glass
“Use materials that have been extracted, harvested, recovered or manufactured within 500 miles of the site.” My first response is . . .what is so special about 500 miles? Why not 400 miles, or 450 miles, or maybe three hundred, eighty-nine…
In addition to being an architect writing about architecture . . . I aspire to be simply a writer. I am currently working on a couple fiction novels. (nominally science fiction) along with a number of short stories. I finally…
Why I don’t do LEED. I put a good bit of careful consideration into whether to post a series of blogs posting taking issue with ‘LEED’ and Sustainability. Such has become an over reaching orthodoxy that one must all but…
It seems that our day and age is chock filled with ‘junk-science’ hysteria on the order of Chicken Little with dire predictions of the sky falling at any minute. Or in this case it is the impending global warming as…
I am in the process of writing up blog posts on LEED, Sustainability and ‘Global Warming’. The posts are not yet fit to publish, but there is a need to publish something as a lead in and generate interest in…
This is a bit of prose I composed a while back. It was intended to be used at marketing /leads group as my ’20 second elevator speech’. It is purpose is to sell me as a designer that works WITH…
Building on the north slope in the mountains This was initially written as a follow-up response from a question asked after a marketing presentation with respect to the work executed by Studio 285 Architecture. The question was, “what about building…