Thinking About "Time" in Long Term Care Settings.
In childhood we measured time in comparison to phenomena. Time varied depending on a number of factors, some are described in the...
With or Without Ornament: Home tells the Story of its Occupants.
[Originally posted November 2009] Looking at the work of architects Adolf Loos and Christopher Alexander, they would appear to be...
I used to think the only thing I do really well is draw; now I know I can dance, too.
[Originally posted in October 2010.] One Saturday in 1997 I got a call from a stranger. Our new classroom building for the Waldorf School...
Some places make you happy, just to be in them!
[Originally posted on October 2, 2010.] Have you ever been in a place that made you so happy you just had to do a cartwheel? Where was...
Seaholm Intake Adaptive Reuse Competition
The Seaholm Intake facility is an iconic Art Deco design and once was the pumphousefor the Seaholm Power Plant. The City-owned re- tired...
Does your home, your furniture, speak beautiful thoughts to you?
“Let me recall to your mind that man of ours seated at his table: he has just got up and walked through his rooms. He listens to the...
Right Sizing Assisted Living Apartments
An assisted living apartment is a study of public and private spatial organization in a compact enclosure. This is true whether the...
Drawing Together with Seniors to Create a Community.
At Highlands Crossing, the first Senior Cooperative housing developed in Arkansas with CDC Bentonville/Bella Vista and NCB|Capital...
A Love Story
1924 That is the year Michael Sovich was born. The world has changed since 1924. OMG has the world changed! The technological innovation...
Myth of the Maintenance-Free Building.
There is no such thing as a maintenance free building. Nor are there magic maintenance free building materials. Some materials and...
