Elderly trees bent over, dipping their branches into the water. The trunks filled with something resembling concrete, filling hollows like filling cavities. Heavy wood posts supporting the tree where it extends horizontally over the water’s edge. Clearly, the trees around West Lake ...
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Peregrination :: Architecture :: Philology
Many years ago, I read a wonderful book titled “Book of the Hopi” by Frank Waters. Well, I read the first half of the book. The book described how the tribes split apart and traveled the four directions, and then met up at the center of the universe, Third Mesa, Arizona. The tribes ...
Years ago, I worked on a project where we did an addition above a large steel framed garage. The garage was attached to the side of a three story brick manufacturing building – a mattress factory that had been turned into a school. The addition above the garage was to be at the same floor ...
In the beginning, I didn’t notice. It did not occur to me to look for potable water fountains for re-filling my empty water bottle. Rome was hot and sticky despite it being September. For whatever reason I had failed to read my travel guide’s weather information carefully, and ...
On the high-speed train from Malaga to Cordoba, I surreptitiously watched as the woman sitting next to me unpacked her bag. Sandwich, drink, napkins, a serving of fresh fruit, and a book filled her train table. Sitting next to the window and now trapped by this woman’s overburdened tray ...
Despite being afraid of heights, I feel an intense urge to climb every staircase I encounter. I’ve climbed stairs to walk along the ledge of the Musegg Wall in Lucerne. I climbed to the roof of the Alcazaba at the Alhambra in Granada. I took the dome tour at St. Peter’s Basilica in ...
A typical architecture student gets no exposure to designing fire-rated walls while in school. Once they get a job working for an architect, they are expected to learn how to look up UL designs for rated walls, and draw wall details based off that information. Instead, many new architects ...
Many cities and states are adopting energy codes which require buildings to have an inch or two of exterior insulation. Most people are aware that putting more or better insulation in the cavity space of the exterior walls of a house or building can reduce the cost to heat and cool the ...
Palacio Dar al-Horro was the last house tour of my visit to Granada. The last day of my trip, at the end of an entire week of sightseeing in Granada – yes, I bought tickets for the Alhambra for two days – yes, I’m an architectural junkie. So, tired, I arrived at the Palacio. ...
While I was visiting Segovia, Spain, I stumbled upon the Coleccion de Titeres de Francisco Peralta, tucked away in the upper floors of the Puerto de Santiago. Of course, it was closed the day I stumbled upon it, but I wandered back the next day when it was open. The museum houses puppets from ...
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Accidental selfie taken at Coleccion de Titeres de Francisco Peralta in Segovia, Spain