More than a necessity, meals are a fundamental part of nourishment in our lives. I am reminded of the scene in the 1962 movie “That Touch...

Recently, there is conversation in our office about the importance of hand drawing, more specifically, the ability to understand the...

Sketch by Jim Lenahan We recently returned from our office retreat in Charleston, SC. An inspiring city, our assignment was to prepare a...

A light rain is falling in Charleston, South Carolina as we prepare for our Friday night office party. Our entire office is in Charleston...

A unique hybrid between a gryphon and a chimera. Fontaine Saint-Michel in Paris, France. “Here in your mind…there’s no difference between...

Naomi Parker Fraley, the real Rosie the Riveter The story of the real women who inspired the enduring icon”Rosie the Riveter” has been in...

My favorite movie of the season is the re-imagined monster movie “The Shape of Water.” It feels to me like a fresh perspective on a...

Cartoon of Thurber’s dog Muggs–“No one knew quite what was wrong with him” The writer and cartoonist James Thurber once said “Dogs...

Just as with a favored recipe, when inspired people come together the fruit of their collaborations can change the face of regional...

“An oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life. Indeed, his chance to live at all is slim, and if he should survive the arrows of his own...

As I put together my menu for Christmas eve and day, I turn to one of my favorite food writers for inspiration. M.F.K Fisher wrote many...

A storm breaking above a bridge in the South of France, Churchill Noble Pursuits As the Netflix series The Crown brings the British...

Picasso’s Villa La Californie (Cannes, 1956), Damian Elwes, 2008 The work of Damian Elwes is part history lesson and part story telling...

Depot Stop, 14 x 18, 2017 Even before I pursued a career of architecture, my creative interests were cultivated at home. When other kids...

Hippocrates engraving by Peter Paul Rubens, 1638 “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”–Hippocrates After indulging over...

Godey’s Lady’s Book, Sara Hale was the editor and used the magazine as her platform to promote her various causes. With Thanksgiving just...

We have been looking at the Arts & Craft movement as it relates to architecture in the office lately which put me in the mind of the way...

“True Beauty can be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.” (Okakura, Kakuzo. (1906) The Book of Tea) The appeal...

Arnold Böcklin, Isle of the Dead, version II, New York version, 1880 As Halloween approaches, images of death surround us. It becomes a...

The UN Building in Hitchcock’s North by Northwest The new movie “Home Again” reminded me that place is often a character in films. The...