This past week has been a cold one. Most days the temperature has been hovering between 0 and 15 degrees (with and without the wind-chill). My apartment has been without heat for a little over 3 weeks. This is the first week where it has become mildly annoying. My current apartment has all wood floors. [...]
I need to thank my urban studio professors for somehow selecting me as the one student in our section to read Peter Calthorne’s The Next American Metropolis in order to brief my peers. The book is written by a practitioner and not a pure academic. It may just be me, but it appeals. I find [...]
David Foster Wallace once said that “learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.” As he saw it, “if you cannot exercise [...]
Recently I’ve been thinking about beauty again. In school I hear philosophers attempt to define it, often relegating it to a certain realm of aesthetics. So… it seems that there is a fairly definable debate occurring that is seeking to pin beauty down. One might even describe it as the struggle between Gaston and the [...]
We are lax on the shoulders of giants. We benefit from ideas and innovations of men before us. We sometimes iterate on these ideas, slightly raising the bar. We impatiently wait for infrequent genius to challenge our positions and raise the bar to amazing levels. If you have ever been in the position to innovate [...]
