The access road looked easy until the fire department asked for a turnaround. The project was a 22-acre industrial park on the edge of a midwestern town: one entrance road, a detention pond, utilities
A context kit is the folder you wish existed every time a project starts: terrain, buildings, streets, trees, and a massing model that opens without a fight. I built one for a campus expansion study o
I spent a morning walking the east end of the Galveston seawall with a notebook, trying to list everything that stands between the city and the Gulf. The wall is the obvious item. It is also the one p
Five of us spent four months widening a two-mile arterial in western Oregon, and the thing that nearly sank the job was not the design. It was that two people had two different existing ground surface
The Comet Drive-In model went to two people I will never meet: the architect hired for the market hall, and a county reviewer who has to approve the entrance. Neither of them watched me build it. They
I tried to put Denver International into a graph database last month. The first draft collapsed in an afternoon, and the reason was a runway label. I had used the painted designator as a primary key,
Our studio has four people, two of whom work remotely. Last month we took on a 28,000-square-foot annex for a K-8 school: nine acres, an existing gym we could not touch, a bus loop that already backed
I did not start with a shortlist of software. I started with a 240-acre site, a seven-week deadline, and a county that needed to see three housing layouts before its next meeting. Harlow Quarry closed
Last month I handed a Grand Central Madison scene to a teammate who had never seen the station. The file opened fine. The problem was everything around it: which layer was the concourse, which part of
