because i never told you why… i’ll never forget that first day of design studio. ‘what is architecture? what is space? why have you entered this profession?‘ the question seemed easy…but i was at a loss. every answer i could come up with didn’t seem enough. i knew there was more than i understood. i was at the beginning of something. everything i thought about architecture was thrown out the window that day. whatever i knew it entailed or believed it to be needed to be tested, processed, redefined… i had to choose for myself what i believed architecture to be and role...
Read Moredespite my writing love and the skill of my camera, nothing will be able to accurately retell the beauty of today. it was unlike any other view i have ever known. 8″ of snow blanketing the entire indian hillside, the setting sun painting itself uninhibitedly across the virgin, white canvas. the way the light shown, the way my feet sounded, the way my heart swelled… oh, thank you Father. and to those of you on the other side of the globe… thanks for sharing with us. …from my front yard…
living in india, monkeys provide great entertainment and distractions from work… see for yourself… [credit goes to matt for his video skills] just as i posted this, one of the little guys opened our back door, walked into the office, stood on his hind legs and looked around. before we could do anything, he was back out the door again. i wonder how many bananas he won on that bet… video-5
fresh and bright eyed, the two new interns arrived for the spring semester. eric and i were there to pick them up. it seems a paradox to stand on the other side of the gate, just a few months after arriving myself. i still remember my first few arriving moments…the noises, the people, the traffic at midnight! i smile at the normalcy of it now. never imagined i could do this on my own. i look out the train window again…i see the same space, the same scenes, the same people through the same, but different eyes. i’m not glued to...
Read Morei almost feel guilty writing this post. i hear of snow storms back in the states, inches and inches of the white stuff combined with sheets of ice makes for quite a winter. it should be cold here as well, but for the past few weeks, lunch outside in the sun… i try to explain global warming to people, but for some reason, they just don’t understand. . a hole in the sky just makes little sense to them. so perhaps, you on the other side of the planet are enjoying winter enough for the whole globe. . thank you for that. but, for a little while,...
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