Category Archives: General Architecture
September 30, 2011 Why is my town so ugly?
It’s been quite some time since my last posting. Things have been festering. It has been 18 months since I moved from Chicago to Redondo Beach, California and I’ve given myself adequate time to acclimate to the different aesthetics. At first, it was the vegetation. How strange everything seemed with palm trees, hollyhock, eucalyptus, all [...]
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May 20, 2010 Censorship from the AIA? OMG!
We just learned that last week BQE Software submitted the advertisement shown here to run in the AIA Florida/Caribbean Architect magazine. They received an email from an Account Manager at McGraw-Hill telling them that the Association (AIA), felt that this ad was “inappropriate for their audience.“ I nearly dropped my chai latte on my lap [...]
Tags: AIA, censorship, McGraw-Hill
May 9, 2010 LEED is the Worst…
“…democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried…” 1 ~ Winston Churchill Change a few words and the Prime Minister’s commentary on democracy could easily be applied to LEED. The USGBC’s system is barely ten years old, yet it has been has been remarkably successful in transforming [...]
Tags: archioffice, LEED, usgbc
