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Tactile Tuesdays | Touching the Berlin Wall Concrete that remembers. Earth that holds history. Fragments that refuse to disappear. Walking the former border of the Berlin Wall is a sensory experience — a tactile archive of scars, textures, an Mark Mondays | The Architect’s Mark ✍🏽 In a world of digital tools, the hand-drawn line still teaches us how to see. New blog now live — on keeping the art of sketching alive in architecture. #architecture #sketching #handdrawing #arc CANtilever Fever | Building Chicago in CANS In 2014, I led a team of AEC professionals in one of the most joyful design challenges of my career — CANstruction Chicago. Our team, POP: Power of Partnerships, built a 10’ x 10’ instal Studio Saturdays | Instruments of Service Architecture begins long before construction — in sketches, models, drawings, and digital files. These aren’t just deliverables; they’re the language we use to translate imagination into re ✨ Feature Fridays | Friday Faces ✨ “If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect.” – Norman Foster Today’s inspiration: Norman Foster @officialnormanfoster A master of light, structure, and i Threshold Thursdays | A camera as a threshold A camera is more than a tool—it’s a threshold. What we frame becomes the story. What we exclude becomes imagination. New blog on ASV: exploring how photographers shape narrative through pres WIP Wednesdays | Showing Up as a Professional Life gets loud. Work gets heavy. Responsibilities multiply. But when you want something deeply, you find your way through the noise. Tonight’s WIP is CE prep — committing to the process, bui We often think of code in architecture as a checklist — fire ratings, exits, clearances. But there’s another kind of code — one that speaks to the body, the land, and the climate: material. Because material is code, too. As flood Every building leaves a mark. Some through what they build — others through what they erase. When the East Wing of The White House was torn down and replaced with a privately funded ballroom, it wasn’t just an architectural act — i 📸✨ Story Sundays | Open House Chicago ✨📸 Every October, Chicago opens its doors for a weekend of architectural discovery. From volunteering at the Tribune Tower nearly 15 years ago — where I stood in the Colonel’s boardroom and discove

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