While on a recent trip to New York, I had an interesting conversation with a colleague that took me back to a formative time in my...

Hercules strength is legendary, as a god playing in a human world, his might was beyond compare.  This figure of Hercules played an...

John Hancock Tower in Chicago As an architect I have privileges.  My work takes me to some of the most beautiful cities in the world. ...

As a child, one of my favorite destinations was my Aunt Margaret’s house.  Margaret was my father’s older sister and my godmother, as...

One March, I thought it might be nice to take my family along for a site visit in the Bahamas. The kids had Spring Break and I could take...

After recently spending the day at the farm outside of Athens, a small town in north central Texas, it only reinforced the cultural and...

I was driving my family down a tight country lane in the Cotswold’s, following dry-stacked stone walls. Motoring along on the other side...

Michael’s Sketch of Villa Capra (Villa Rotunda) John Ruskin had once said, “To draw the Leaf, is to know the Forest.” For generations...

As I negotiate my way through the crowd I become mute and dumb, so that entrepreneurial tour guides don’t latch on to another hapless...

I love Europe in the winter. I’ve seen Paris and Florence in the snow. I’ve seen the gentle rolling English countryside freshly dusted...