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Upsize/Downsize
Change is always provocative. Divorce, empty-nesting, or college tuitions finally paid off all trigger thoughts of “What’s next?” Your home is your biggest mirror and as you change it inevitably...
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Seven Ways Your House Can Be “Good” (Vs. “Bad”): Part 1
This is the 1st of a 7-part series. Enjoy! Part 1: A Good” house changes its shape, footprint, and plan to mesh with its site. A “Bad” house preconceives its design without a site. A “Bad” house’s...
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Seven Ways Your House Can Be “Good” (Vs. “Bad”): Part 2
This is the 2nd of a 7-part series. Enjoy! A “Good” house fits the needs of its occupants. A “bad” house only meets the needs of its occupants in one of several clumsy ways: a. The number of...
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Seven Ways Your House Can Be “Good” (vs. Bad): Part 3
This is the 3rd of a 7-part series. Enjoy! 3. A “Good” house lavishes money on things that matter to its owners and spends as little as possible on things that don’t matter to them. “Bad” houses are...
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Seven Ways Your House Can Be “Good” (vs. Bad): Part 4
This is the 4th of a 7-part series. Enjoy! 4. A “Good” house thinks about what it will look like in ten years. Through the thoughtful use of the right materials and integration with the site,...
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Seven Ways Your House Can Be “Good” (vs. Bad): Part 5
This is the 5th of a 7-part series. Enjoy! 5. A “Good” house is organized and designed to minimize the use of natural resources. A “Bad” house casts a blind eye to where the sun is, which direction...
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Seven Ways Your House Can Be “Good” (vs. Bad): Part 6
This is the 6th of a 7-part series. Enjoy! 6. A “Good” house considers light, space, and material in its interior design. A “Bad” house only considers surface decoration and its exterior affect...
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Seven Ways Your House Can Be “Good” (vs. Bad): Part 7
This is the 7th of a 7-part series. Enjoy! 7. A “Good” house has style, but may not have a named “Style”. This non-style is derived from the essence of its relationship between its occupants...
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THE CANONS
Explanatory Note: It’s not insightful to say that American house construction and design is in the doldrums. We are in a period of deep recession, with houses being both the creator of the financial...
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Who Killed Jogging?
If words did not change more people would actually understand Shakespeare than pretend to. In the Age of Acceleration, things change at the drop of a tense. The iPad I am touching right now juices and...
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The Basic Rights & Rules of Dwelling
The Rights I. Freedom from Interference: Every dwelling shall provide isolation between neighbors and neighborhood. The dwelling entrance shall afford privacy, in accord with the United Nations...
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New Haven’s 3 Utopia’s: Puritanical – Modernist – New Urbanized
Little New Haven has had a megasquare dropped at its swampy edge by Puritans, acres of neighborhoods laid waste by Urban Renewal, and, now, has the Megasquare’s southeast corner will be “New...
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CORA Position Paper
The Congress of Residential Architecture was created 10 years ago, and its mission of making better homes for more people reached a peak of impact about 3.5 years ago with the presentation of this...
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Money and Building
-there is never enough and there is no upper limit In every website, coffee table book, magazine or HGTV show the cost of doing construction is either dumbed down to sound bite superficiality, or its...
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Both/And – The Alternative To Defendable Design
Humans are so desperately want defendability: we subvert thought with pre-fab political POV’s, in our youth we take on pre-fab personas we find solice in: being a Trekkie, hipster, nerd, jock or goth...
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Rude Rules
It’s so easy to rose-color-glass the rear view mirror. Every change has some collateral damage, and we do miss what we do not have, even when its replaced with a reality that is objectively superior. I...
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New Rules for a New Normal
This is a new time for those who are in the home-determination mindset: to do anything, you have to break the cycle of fear that is paralyzing a very large segment of those who formerly thought it was...
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Words
Language is an inspiration and a trap. Like music, the words we use are as confused in their expression as we are in our motives for using them – written or spoken, they are received with every ounce...
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Rule 1: Addicted To Light
We obsess about the weather, it’s a benign observance: no culpability save whoever is on the other side of your climate change believe system – however, weather is just the most obvious truth we seem...
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Gutters are of the Devil – the canon expanded/detoxed 7/12/14
Gutters and leaders are devoutly to be avoided. They make construction more expensive now and in the out years. When we effort redirection of a massive natural forces: gravity, earthquakes, wind, and...
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