When my wife and I first moved into this house back in ’87, the previous owners had installed one of those big security floodlights on the garage. The thing could…
# Natural Biophilic Elements: My Journey Bringing the Outdoors Inside I keep thinking about this little cafe I stumbled across during a weekend trip to this coastal town in Oregon…
# Dreaming of Cities Where Nature Actually Lives I spend way too much time daydreaming about what cities could actually be like if we stopped pretending that concrete boxes are…
I’ll be honest – when I first heard about “vertical gardens” or “living walls,” I thought it sounded like one of those expensive designer trends that regular homeowners like me…
I’m sitting in my home office this morning, looking at the small air quality monitor on my desk that’s showing steadily improving numbers since I installed those plants two years…
# The Ultimate Biophilic Game Room: Creating My Nature-Gaming Paradise You know that feeling when you walk into a space and immediately think “wow, I could hang out here forever”?…
I never thought I’d become the kind of parent who gets excited about library architecture, but here we are. It started when my daughter was struggling with reading focus and…
When I think about industrial buildings – the factories where I spent my career, warehouses, manufacturing plants – what comes to mind is concrete, steel, exposed pipes. Pure function, nothing…
I never thought I’d become the kind of dad who researches gazebo construction techniques, but here we are. It started when my kids kept asking to build a “secret hideout”…
When my daughter sent me an article about Singapore's approach to urban design a few years back, I figured it would be another one of those feel-good pieces about putting…