I’ve been obsessing over London’s approach to bringing nature into urban spaces ever since I stumbled across an article about their “nature deficit disorder” initiatives. As someone who’s spent the…
I never thought I’d spend my evening reading industrial engineering papers about air pollution control systems, but here we are. It all started when I was researching air quality impacts…
Looking at this article, I can see it’s written from a professional consultant’s perspective, but I need to rewrite it from my amateur hobbyist viewpoint. Let me transform this while…
Living in a pre-war building has taught me a lot about what lasts and what doesn’t. My studio might be tiny and dark, but the bones of this 1920s building…
So I’ve been going down this rabbit hole lately about something called regenerative design, and it’s kind of blowing my mind. It started when I was researching ways to make…
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…
When I was a kid, my grandmother always said some houses just felt “friendly” while others felt cold, no matter how nice they looked. I didn’t understand what she meant…
Okay, so I keep seeing this word “biophilic” everywhere – on design blogs, in Instagram captions about fancy offices with living walls, thrown around by people who clearly have way…
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’m sitting in my home office this morning, looking at the small air quality monitor on my desk that’s showing steadily improving numbers since I installed those plants two years…
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 started tracking something weird in my productivity data recently – not my usual metrics like focus time or task completion rates, but how much confusion around workspace terminology was…
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…
When my wife and I first moved into this house back in ’87, the previous owners had installed one of those big security floodlights on the garage. The thing could…