Thinking
Under development - Essays, field notes, observations, lectures, research notes, and case notes on design intent, construction intelligence, observation, scale, and the built environment.
Essay
Design intent is a management problem
Buildings rarely lose their ambition in a single decision. They lose it through small transfers of responsibility that no one has been asked to coordinate.
Note
The intelligence of constraints
A project becomes clearer when its limits are treated as design information rather than administrative inconvenience.
Field memo
Construction as a form of authorship
Execution is not the opposite of design. It is the medium through which design becomes accountable.
Lecture
The World’s Largest Library Has No Books
An inquiry into the built world as both subject and source.
Research note
Moving through scale
Material, component, body, room, building, city, environment. Observation can move inward or outward, and ideas seen at one scale may reveal relationships at another.
Field note
Field observation as discipline
Travel, drawing, photography, reading, buildings, cities, vernacular construction, and occupied space become a comparative field of research.