NJ Home Kitchen Remodel

This article was pitched on behalf of architect Lisa Walzer for a kitchen renovation she did for a couple in suburban New Jersey. She deployed

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Scarpa

Book Review: Carlos Scarpa

A review of a magnificent tome about maestro Scarpa’s work, and God is indeed in the details.  The authors, former employees of the Scarpa workshop

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Home Savings

In Good Standing

This was a feature article I wrote about the Home Savings of America Tower in Los Angeles.  It was designed by Albert C. Martin and

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Ranalli

Book Review: George Ranalli

This was a book review I wrote about a newly-published monograph of the New York architect’s work. I praised the originality and sculptural elements of

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Woodstock

Woodstock

Life Magazine put out a call for entries from people who had attended the Woodstock Festival.  Wanting to get something published, I wrote down a

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HVAC Systems

This was a brief technical blurb for Architecture magazine’s “Neat File” page about running HVAC ductwork through a deep beam, a not uncommon practice in

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Agrarian

Agrarian Village

This was a feature article I wrote for Architectural Record about a new science facility at North Dakota State University.  It was designed by Minnesota’s

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Ando

Book Review: Tadao Ando

The magazine assigned a review of a recent Tadao Ando book about a studio he taught at Yale School of Architecture. Oddly, little was said

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A Place

A Place in the Sun

This was a feature article I wrote about the Noble Research Center in Stillwater, OK.  It was designed by TAC (The Architects Collaborative), Walter Gropius’s

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Ornament

An Affinity for Ornament

This was a feature article I wrote about my firm’s new and exciting uses of metal ornamentation in the design of large buildings. Kohn Pedersen

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Plaster

Plaster Renaissance

This was a technical article I wrote about the resurgence of the use of plaster in different aspects of architectural design and in various regions

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