Chat with Jean Hewitt (author of U.K. Standard PAS 6463: Design for the Mind) today about how something goes from a need expressed by a disabled person to a standard that ends up on an architect’s desk.

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Rode in my first Waymo this week. As my friend Andrew said, it felt “totally wild, and then, almost instantly normal.”


Tried to study how color changes on camera with distance, using this Ellsworth Kelley building at UT Austin. I must’ve tapped the flip button at some point, so instead I ended up with a lot of photos of my forehead.


Have been thinking about different flavors of low resolution lately; blur in Ann Hamilton’s work, Ann Gale’s brushy pixelation, to projects like 44 Low Resolution Houses, which defines “low resolution” as loose, rough construction. More on this later…

Anyways, here is a tiny radish, blown up and repainted.


Sent out an advocacy email today about a survey around architecture school accreditation.