“Design depends largely on constraints.” — Charles Eames
Monday, 21 June 2010
A few weeks ago I was browsing through My Bookshop in Hawksburn, where on a whim I picked up The Winter of Our Disconnect by Susan Maushart. As I write this, I’m at 30,000 feet, and have just finished...
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Thursday, 10 May 2007
For a while, I’ve had the fairly well-known Charles Eames quote “Design depends largely on constraints” as the tagline on my blog (if you read this in a feed aggregator, you’ll have to go to one of the HTML...
Monday, 22 March 2004
Interested in living in actual communities, rather than subdivisions or “pods”? Tired of spending most of your life in a car? I’ve been getting a lot of books from the library recently, and one of my recent reads was Suburban...
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Wednesday, 10 September 2003
One of the most interesting examples of architecture I’ve seen in a while is the nearly-finished Swiss Re building(aka 30 St. Mary Axe) in London, also known as “The Gherkin” by locals there. I first saw it wondering the streets...
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