Working from home for six years has taught me a lot about optimizing my environment for productivity, but I’ll be honest – it took me way too long to figure…
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…
So here’s the thing about living in a tiny, dark apartment: you get really creative about finding ways to not lose your mind. When the pandemic hit and I was…
I’ve been remote for six years now, and about two years ago I started noticing something weird in my productivity data. Some days I’d be crushing through tasks, other days…
# When Space Meets Soul: My Journey Into Biophilic Reverie There’s this thing that happens sometimes when you’re outside – maybe you’re sitting by a lake at sunset, or walking…
You know, I never thought much about why some restaurants and bars felt comfortable while others made me want to finish my drink and leave. After thirty-eight years in the…
Look, I’m not going to pretend I’m some kind of design expert, but after three years of trying to make my dark studio apartment livable, I’ve learned a few things…
# Why Healthcare Buildings Make Me Feel Better (Or Worse): What I’ve Learned About Nature’s Role in Medical Spaces You know how some places just make you feel awful the…
When I think about industrial buildings – the factories where I spent my career, warehouses, manufacturing plants – what comes to mind is concrete, steel, exposed pipes. Pure function, nothing…
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…
When my daughter sent me an article about Singapore's approach to urban design a few years back, I figured it would be another one of those feel-good pieces about putting…
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”…
Okay, so I’ve been seeing these photos on Instagram lately of high-rise buildings that look absolutely nothing like my sad pre-war brick box, and I had to dig into what’s…
When I first started reading about something called biophilic design a few years back, it struck me as one of those fancy terms for what my grandmother’s generation knew instinctively.…
# Natural Biophilic Elements: My Journey Bringing the Outdoors Inside I keep thinking about this little cafe I stumbled across during a weekend trip to this coastal town in Oregon…