Communications with a Heritage House
Perhaps my reader will wonder just what I am.
An often-overlooked element of creating and renovating buildings is the facilitation of processes.
Why do some buildings beguile us, others bewilder, and others repel? This downloadable book explores the complex relationships between people and the built environments we inhabit.
In education, mentoring often plays an important role. Sometimes the role of a mentor never ends, and might span the generations.
Music is abstract and architecture more material and physical. A musician can examine the materials in-between differently because they act upon a third sense – that of hearing.
It was late November, and Antoine surveyed the wreck of his Ottawa office. . .
This article explores the nature of a set of concepts that might be overall classified as 'elegance'. Various writers are considered, as well as the results of polling of members of the wider population.
Further explorations of sustainability in contexts of uncertainty.
What makes a place worthy of positive note. This is not a frivolous matter - architects, planners and developers all have a role in ensuring that the wider population responds in a positive manner to the buildings and cities that they create.