Personal note: in 1976 I fell in love…with a handrail, and thus discovered that buildings can be seductive in ways I hadn’t been taught. Gliding down a wide spiral stair of a London Tube station with my shoulder pressed against the smooth white tile, I began an affair that changed...

I like to make things. I don’t know why, exactly – my parents were not “handy” in the sense that they went looking for the type of projects that I have long been drawn to. They never taught me how to use tools. I guess I had a granduncle that was an amateur architect (I...

I am fortunate to be in a position in which people send me a lot of interesting things to look at, to read, to comment on and to absorb into my teaching and research. Much of what I see has to do with digital design and fabrication technologies – hardly a day goes by without an article...

Students from our graduate and undergraduate furniture studios have been sending their work to the Chair Affair in Boise, Idaho for many years. Sponsored by the Interior Decorators of Idaho, the event offers prizes for work entered by both professionals and students. I volunteered to deliver...

I have been thinking about space and volume, how we our design processes idealize them, and how seldom that ideal is actually experienced. When we do happen upon a great space – interior or exterior, designed or natural – we slow down, remark upon it, note how it works and go...