Category: Architecture & Art
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Traffic as a Community Builder – A Solution To New Westminster Truck Traffic and Community Building
Please click on the link to view the proposal. It will open in another browser window. Traffic as a Comunity Builder (PDF)
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Moving Up in Education: An Opportunity for New Westminster Secondary School
Over the years I have worked on over twenty-one school projects. And whether they were in Nova Scotia, Nunavut or British Columbia, there are components to them that are very standard. There are programming, spatial relationships and circulation issues that are consistent with the way schools work. Over the years ways o f teaching have…
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Art Fosters Art (“Wow, how do you do all that stuff?”)
My house is filled with art. Well, I call it art but I know it is subjective. But whenever people come to my house they comment on the paintings on the walls. They invariably ask who did them. I reply, or my partner does, that I did all the paintings. Then they look at me…
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“Oh, You Must be Good at Math.”
My son plays this game “Clash of Clans” online and he is really into it. He’s constantly coming to me for military strategic advice to avoid having the Barbarian Hoards of other Clans decimate his base. I am teaching him about the theories of Acceptable Losses, Defense Positions, Rules of Engagement, Investment and Collateral Damage.…
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Recognizing Limitations but Never Saying “No”
It is becoming more and more common for requests for proposals from potential clients to include strict requirements for the Architect to have already completed at least three of a particular type of project. For example, school RFPs require that the proponent show examples of at least three school projects they have already completed. A…
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“The Architect Must Have Designed Prisons”
I was an actor once for a short film being shot at the Simon Fraser University in Burnaby several years ago and during a break while they changed the lighting, I sat with one of the other actors who was a student at the university. As we picked at the craft table he asked me…