Journal
Notes on light, orientation, and architecture.
Design-literate reading for buyers who want to understand a house before they walk through it — floor plans, orientation, passive solar, and what actually made mid-century modern modern.
How Orientation Changes a House’s Personality, Room by Room
The single-word answer to “which way should a house face” doesn’t exist, because a well-designed house doesn’t face one direction…
Mid-Century Modern: What Made It Modern
“Mid-century modern” gets applied today to almost anything with clean lines and a flat-ish roof, which flattens a set of…
The Case for North-Facing Light in a Studio
Ask any working painter, ceramicist, or architect what light they actually want to work under, and the answer is almost…
What ‘Passive Solar’ Actually Means for Your Electric Bill
“Passive solar” gets used loosely in real estate marketing to mean almost anything with big south-facing windows, which is a…
Reading a Floor Plan Like an Architect
Most buyers read a floor plan the way they’d read a furniture catalogue — room by room, checking boxes for…