THE ASV BLOG

— by JANICE NINAN

Janice Ninan 9/1/26 Janice Ninan 9/1/26

When Water Has Nowhere to Go

Texas Floods and the Urgency of Porous Design

Janice Ninan 1/15/26 Janice Ninan 1/15/26

CROSSING THE THRESHOLD

Threshold Thursdays | From Employee Mindset to Business Ownership.

Janice Ninan 12/31/25 Janice Ninan 12/31/25

ARCHITECTURE BEFORE ARCHITECTURE

Story Sundays | The stone building that raised ME…

Janice Ninan 12/27/25 Janice Ninan 12/27/25

LESSONS THAT OUTLAST STUDIO

Studio Saturdays | What we carry forward from Architecture school isn’t just technique - it’s a way of seeing the world.

Janice Ninan 12/18/25 Janice Ninan 12/18/25

LANDSCAPE AS A THRESHOLD

Threshold Thursdays | The Anderson Japanese Garden unfolds as a quiet threshold - guiding the body from movement into mindful stillness.

Janice Ninan 12/10/25 Janice Ninan 12/10/25

PRESERVED IN PROGRESS

WIP Wednesday | The Cathedral that never stops being Built — Preservation Lessons from Cologne’s Kölner Dom.

Janice Ninan 12/2/25 Janice Ninan 12/2/25

TOUCHING HISTORY

Tactile Tuesdays | The Material Memory of the Berlin Wall

Janice Ninan 12/1/25 Janice Ninan 12/1/25

THE ARCHITECT’S MARK

Mark Mondays | Seeing, Thinking and Sketching by hand

Janice Ninan 11/23/25 Janice Ninan 11/23/25

‘CAN’-tilever Fever

Story Sundays | How we replicated a snippet of Chicago’s iconic Architectural Skyline in Cans of Food — and Built Community along the way.

Janice Ninan 11/22/25 Janice Ninan 11/22/25

INSTRUMENTS OF SERVICE

Studio Saturdays | How Architects communicate Vision…

Janice Ninan 11/20/25 Janice Ninan 11/20/25

THE CAMERA AS A THRESHOLD

Threshold Thursdays | Framing, Exclusion, and the Architecture of Narrative

Janice Ninan 11/4/25 Janice Ninan 11/4/25

MATERIALITY OF A BUILDING IS CODE, TOO

Tactile Tuesdays | On durability, disaster, and why material choices of core and shell matter.

Janice Ninan 10/12/25 Janice Ninan 10/12/25

OPEN HOUSE CHICAGO

Story Sundays | From Volunteer to Participant in Chicago’s Architectural Story

Janice Ninan 10/9/25 Janice Ninan 10/9/25

GUARDIANS OF PROJECT THRESHOLDS

Threshold Thursdays | How Architecture Projects cross from Vision to Reality

Janice Ninan 10/7/25 Janice Ninan 10/7/25

TEXT AS TEXTURE. LIGHT AS DIALOGUE.

Tactile Tuesdays | The Tactile Poetry of the Museum of the Future.

Janice Ninan 10/6/25 Janice Ninan 10/6/25

Idea to Identity

Mark Mondays | The Birth of the ASV Mark - The Logo Speaks

Janice Ninan 9/7/25 Janice Ninan 9/7/25

JAPAN, 2011 - AND THE ECHO I FEEL TO THIS DAY

Story Sundays | When memory, myth, and the ground beneath us converge.

Janice Ninan 9/6/25 Janice Ninan 9/6/25

Birthing a Design Practice with Many Voices

Studio Saturdays | Janice’s vision for Architecture Speaks Volumes

Janice Ninan 9/5/25 Janice Ninan 9/5/25

STEEL, SHADOWS AND SILENCE

Feature Fridays | A Moment with the Wassily Chair at Bauhaus Dessau

Janice Ninan 9/3/25 Janice Ninan 9/3/25

A NEW SKIN FOR A POSTMODERN ICON

WIP Wednesdays | Watching the Thompson Center’s Evolution