After 5 days of effort and months of procrastination, I have finally gotten a full digital portfolio up and running on this site. Click here or on the link in the page header to check it out. Just make sure you wait to start clicking links until the page is fully loaded, otherwise you may find yourself on a page that doesn’t exist.
Mar 032009
Feb 252009
Who do people use as a web-hosting company? I am looking to help a potential client with a new WordPress blog and website setup and I am looking for recommendations. I have issues with my current web-hosting service: their apache server is an older version and I cannot do “clean” post addresses. Any recommendations would help
Jan 302009
I am back from my blogging sabbatical. The holidays are come and gone, my play was a success, and I am now fully cleared to take my exams. I have started studying in my free time, and in the coming weeks I plan on devoting some space here to things I learn in my ARE studying as well as plugging myself back into the on-line architectural discourse.
Dec 232008
The next few weeks are going to be a bit crazy for me. As you can see by the new banner ad on the main page, the community theatre show I am producing opens in three weeks, so a lot of my time will be spent on that (if you are going to be in the DC area come and see it!). In addition, the holidays will throw a wrench in my writing time, especially because there are some applications i need to get filed by the beginning of January. Add to all of this, I just got my ARE test prep materials, so I may need to take a break from posting regularly for the next few weeks. I will still be twittering, and If i find something interesting while wasting time online or reading an architecture journal i may post it. (if not sooner) Whatever you are or are not celebrating, have a happy holidays, see you next year!
With the recent closing of many of the area’s Circuit City stores and the bleak financial forecast, this Sunday’s Washington Post article about what to do with big box stores after they close down, seemed to be fortuitously timed to impact the local planning discourse. For this article, the Post assembled a collection of local architects and artists, such as Darrel Rippeteau, Roger K. Lewis, Esocoff & Associates, et al., and asked them how they would reuse a big-box store. The graphics in this article are intriguing and open an sub/urban planning discussion on what to do with the trappings of early twenty-first century American development once this business model has changed. The proposals include luxury housing, gardens, vineyards, and other adaptive reuse measures. This is all green and good, but I have to question the safety and cost of reusing these big box stores. Like fast food franchises, big box stores are not built to last. They are not constructed with any concept of their permanence, instead they are meant to go up quick and cheap and come down the same way when the new mega-ultra-super mart opens around the corner. The advantage of reusing old warehouses and factories [...]
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Aug 132008
Ok, after a full night of work, it looks like my blog is back to normal. Please poke around and see if it all works.
Aug 122008
My feed was broken for almost a month, now its fixed.
Jul 242008
So, this post is a bit off topic. It was brought to my attention that my single post pages were 404ing. This was an odd issue because my posts all showed up in the main page, but clicking any link would return an error. So I changed my permalinks from being Month/Day/post based to being the standard straight numeric method. After clearing the cache the page loaded fine; I tried the other possible permalinks and none worked correctly. I’m thinking that this has happened since my last wordpress upgrade. Anyone have any experience dealing with this?