I’ll be honest – I never paid much attention to old buildings until we started looking at houses in older neighborhoods for better school districts. Most of the places we…
I never thought I’d become obsessed with spa design principles until I started connecting them to what I was learning about creating calming spaces for my kids. It started when…
I’ll be honest – I never thought a business trip would completely change how I think about my kids’ future, but that’s exactly what happened during my company’s supply chain…
I discovered Timothy Beatley’s work on biophilic cities during one of those late-night deep dives that happens when you’re trying to figure out why your kids seem so much happier…
I never thought much about city planning until I watched my neighborhood flood three times in one summer. Standing in my kitchen, looking out at the water rushing down our…
I never expected to get emotionally affected by architecture, but there I was last month in the Amazon Spheres in Seattle, watching office workers naturally drift toward the curved glass…
So there I was last week, stuck in another endless virtual PTA meeting about school budget cuts, when something caught my attention. One of the other parents had this amazing…
When my son was first diagnosed with ADHD at six, I’ll be honest – I panicked a little. Not about the diagnosis itself (I’d been reading about ADHD for months…
I never used to pay much attention to how museum spaces were designed until I started taking my kids to them regularly. Before parenthood, I’d walk through exhibits focused mainly…
When I first heard the term “biophilic city,” I had no idea what it meant. But after watching my kids respond so differently to various environments – thriving in some…
I never expected to learn one of my most important parenting lessons while pulling waterlogged drywall out of a stranger’s kitchen. But there I was, three weeks after Hurricane Florence…
You know that moment when you walk into a space and suddenly understand what you’ve been missing? I had that experience about two years ago when I was researching childcare…
I never thought I’d become the kind of parent who gets excited about library architecture, but here we are. It started when my daughter was struggling with reading focus and…
I never thought I’d become the kind of dad who researches gazebo construction techniques, but here we are. It started when my kids kept asking to build a “secret hideout”…
I never thought I’d be taking design notes during family vacations, but that’s exactly what happened last summer when we stayed at this amazing boutique hotel. I walked into the…