I just added the Firm’s Book to this site as a page. Check the pdf out!
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Year: 2008
Good Life on Twin Peaks and a Little Porn
Amy Lemen wrote a wonderful article in this month’s issue of The Good Life Magazine.
Download the article’s pdf HERE.
And this reminds me of the .Inc article on the “other twin”, just to balance matters. That’s a pretty wonderful article too.
If you happen to read these two articles you’ll get a pretty good idea of what’s like to live in the houses that come out of the studio.
And… if you happen to be wondering what it’s like to work with an architect, us for example, I’d recommend you read these two articles:
And the sweet account from years ago, when I met MJ and he was working on Ron and Gina’s Lake house.
It makes me think of how much I’ve learned in these thirteen years, I’m grateful and lucky to be able to do what we do. We create beauty for a living, what else can you ask for?
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Larkey Addition/Remodel
Went by the larkey job today, it was deserted because of the rain. With almost all the sliding doors in, you can really start telling what the space is going to feel like. My favorite has to be the new master bedroom, with the views to the courtyard and the clerestory window streching beyond where the glass will stop all the way down to the carport! Your eye just travels forever on that left side, and below that… all that storage!!!
I really also saw the jog around the tree, today, with the flashing being in and all, it’s a skinny carport but a very considerate one:-)
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Sunday Morsel 2
…that only a bet on the impossible makes sense. It is an act of faith and courage requiring an irrational leap over reason. A man wins simply by making such a bet.
from Roscoe by William Kennedy
AIA, Austin Honor Award and Silver Medal!
2008 is rocking for us… I’m posting this way late, but after sending around the newsletter with the big news, I keep forgetting to put it on the blog, finally I get to it! Et voila ici:
MJ Neal, AIA wins Another Design Honor Award… and a Silver Medal as it was distributed on our newsletter, if you want to receive it, go here:
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Trellis Finished, Vanity in
It’s concrete guys, so smooth that you’d think it was plastic… fabricated by John Newbold.
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Good News!
In between pretty boys and girls and brainy architecture geniuses, let’s celebrate my first MONTH WITHOUT SMOKING in 25 years! (except for a very short six months in 1992.)
I’ve QUIT SMOKING!!! I’m PSYCHED!!!
Remember the Boston trip? Well I was in my third day, when we left, no really.
The simplest, silliest little book help me do it. I feel like an infomercial and such, but I highly recommend it if you are trying to quit. Don’t judge it, just do what the man says and you will stop smoking. Sometimes the hardest things can suddenly become simple if you reach the right frame of mind, I guess… I’m still pinching myself… The guy, Allan Carr basically tells the truth about smoking and about the health industry myths, I wish someone had bought me this book YEARS ago… YEEEEES!!!!
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Zumthor is the man
That would be “the man” as in the good, iconoclastic, sort of James Brown way not the governmental, controlling, fascist (I won’t mention any names) sort of way.
so check it:
Zumthor goes to the essence of things
Sottsass
Ettore Sottsass (1917-2007)
The thing I love most about Ettore Sottsass is his beautiful, poignant, often ironic writing. The following was in The Reader (a compilation of architecture writings from news papers around the world) put out by Abitare. The writing was originally published in Terrazzo, n. 12
HOUSES HAVE AN INTERIOR
Those who build a house will also be building an inner void.
People, I mean the infinte, diverse, ancient and new people, fill the empty spaces of their houses, and their workshops, with whatever they think may somehow count as protection, precisely, against the unknown.
There are also the protections of so-called “culture”, the protections of rooms full of books or maybe full of “works of art”. “Culture is the most detached, the subtlest protection, the protection that seems to exist beyond the protection itself; “culture” is imagined as a total way out, as the place nearest the truth, as the place that protects more than all the other places, as the place that rubs out all daily sins, as the place farthest from the storms and the becalmed seas, farthest from the unkown, from frailty, farthest from the dreams of guilt, from syphilis and impotence, as the place ever blessed by sperm, as the final place never disclosed by moans.
Ettore Sottssas
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