Community Architect

 The State of Downtown, according to its boosters, the various downtown BIDs, is always good. To many residents, however their downtown is a rather sad affair, at least since the pandemic. The BIDs continue to clean and swe...

The arc of history bends towards progress

Most people born after the age of Enlightenment take it for granted that progress is inevitable. Science, technology and medicine lead to ever more health, wealth and mobility. Productivity and education increase hand in hand, only the sky is the limit. 

Democracy unfolded, social justice and civil and women's ...

To live is to leave traces (Walter Benjamin, German philosopher)

"If architecture is where most of human existence takes place it cannot fail to be a topic of philosophy". (Graham Harman, American philosopher)

Anxiety and Challenges

I recently participated in a luncheon with the local AIA Fe...

The Perception

In my hometown of Baltimore it is a widespread conviction that the redevelopment of former industrial sites adjacent to downtown such as Harbor East, Harborpoint and the further out Port Covington did nothing but suck the lifeblood out of downtown and even out of neighborhoods. 

The new developments did not only draw residents and jobs o...