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Stop and Smell the Ink
Michael’s Sketch of Villa Capra (Villa Rotunda.) Vicenza, Italy. John Ruskin had once said, “To draw the Leaf, is to know the Forest.”...


Architecture for the Heavens
The Observatory at Delhi; by Thomas and William Daniell, 1808 I rose early and stepped outside into clear cool darkness, it was well...


I used to be an Architect
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...


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


Memories of an English Garden
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...


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


The Rug
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...
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