A peak inside the mind of Duo Dickinson.
Transitions are hard. When I left 8th Grade as the King of a tiny class, I instantly became a worthless Freshman. When a graduated with the highest grade in Thesis (sort of) I became an unemployed idiot. Now I am at the dying end of Analog. But more, those who have graduated from the Analog […]
Saturday two devoted Christian lay leaders who are part of a local independent Bible-based church visited my office after sending me a comprehensive memo laying out the possibility of creating a school. Not surprising as I have been an architect with my own office for 40 years. We shared an hour discussing the possibilities and pitfalls of […]
— wp> Senator Lindsay Graham dropped dead last weekend. He was 71. I am about to be 71. Graham was peripatetic – flying everywhere, always in front of cameras. “Always working,” said Donald Trump in tribute. Then Sam Niell, yet another handsome Boomer celebrity dies overnight, following Kirstie Alley, Christine McVie, Ray Liotta, Olivia Newton […]
“The brain is wider than the sky” #632 Emily Dickinson & Synagogue Duo Dickinson Why would architects care about words? In writings intended to convince and justify themselves architects have offered the genius of their insights for the entire Modern Era. Corbusier’s “Vers Une Architecture”, Frank Lloyd Wright’s autobiography, Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi’s […]
RADIO! 7am Saturday! August 1! WPKN 89.5fm – STREAMING wpkn.org Artificial Intelligence is the latest Kill Shot to our Analog Humanity. We let the electrons do the walking (and thinking) as we scroll through the Black Hole of perception. First computer digitization made drawings electricity, without dimensional media. The Internet then suffocated the hand-to-heart-thru-mind of […]
New Stuff: In When Lent Happens: The Silent Lamb In Home Page: HOME PAGE Becomes DESIGN NOW Podcast! In A Miracle Of Coincidence: We – Are the Birds – That Stay In A Year In Lent: Experience is the Angled Road In Random Stuff: A Terrible Time for History In Absence: Easters In Left To Myself: 3 Score […]
INCREDIBLE PODCAST!!!! https://open.spotify.com/episode/0uUs06XbtUgbSEUFaUjtfx?si=Br7HZ7iuR9ue_omJ-K25rQ Urbanist & Thought Leader Andres Duany, Historian & Architect Mark Alan Hewitt and Critic & Editor Martin Pedersen in an hour of intense interaction in a fraught time. Whether it’s the 250th Anniversary Arch or the Obama Center, we have lost a sense of time and meaning beyond polemic in design.…
At the Yonkers Planning board meeting 2 weeks ago we were last on the agenda. This was for a new building built to replace a burned down building that has 9 active tenants. We had to follow the existing unit count and size – but more we had to design to all the present codes […]
lives that cannot be heard in the silence that cannot be seen except as light The where is what we can know the light is unseen except in silence
What are aesthetics without profit, transaction and personality? GREAT PODCAST! https://open.spotify.com/episode/1d2BdifOAmzyFf1bw4Rvga?si=_wvHopTXTdePJA7dRzgciw We create buildings to accommodate our desires. They are harbors first, inspirations second. All around us, we see new buildings built for profit: housing, stores, offices. We also build homes and institutions to glorify those building…