As I crest the ninth drop of 12 on the Coney Island Cyclone ride of this life, I’m looking for a career change. Something less office...

(Warning- this post is boorishly full of the first person singular tense) I’ve become a hermit. Saint Kevin of Cobb. (For anyone...

A quarter-century ago, I was exiled out of New York. The bridge and tunnel crossings were closed to me. When asked to explain my...

Six times zones from Atlanta, and forty years apart, I was enrolled at the Architecture Association of London, trying to understand what...

I always tell inquirers that I left New York for Atlanta because of the Federal Witness Protection Program. Two adaptations have been...

This proclamation will surprise those familiar with my narrow band of emotions, but I have a CERTIFICATE OF LIVE BIRTH from the State of...

I taught for a few years after graduate school. I wasn’t very good at it, owing to both the lack of any truly meaningful insights of...

I worked most evenings in high school. Not so much out of economic necessity, dates and gas were cheap in rural Ohio in the 70’s, but...

For most of us, I mean those of us who were publicly schooled and didn’t suffer the reality of a boarding school, the Julian calendar...

A close friend of mine, Satoshi Ohashi, was the visionary architect Zaha Hadid’s employee number 4, back when her office occupied only...

In the now third trimester of my life outside the womb, I’m realizing that the best moments of that life have been happenstance, and as a...

A “friend” of mine, Sara, is a bartender in a neighborhood Atlanta restaurant. She is a parenthetical “friend” because she pretends to...

I’m assuming that most all of the three letter architectural firms, TVS, SOM, HKS, etc. require each employee to submit to, and submit,...

Truth be told, I’m the world’s leading expert on humor in Architecture. It is a club of one, of which I am president, scribe and...

Truth be told, I’m a liar. Although not one of the seven deadly sins, lying is a deal breaker in the Boy Scout code of ethics. A Scout is...