Her latest novel is quite good

Philippe Boudon’s Lived-in Architecture: Le Corbusier's Pessac Revisited (1972) is a good start. A good example of a post-occupancy study of an iconic modernist building.

Season 2 of Andor is essentially an intergalactic version of Jean-Pierre Melville’s Army of Shadows (1969)

Happy Groundhog Day

… in 25,000 words

To immerse oneself in the rhythms and rituals of the stories of another country is a reminder that translation is more than just converting text from one language to another—it is spatial dislocation. So here I am in the tropical wilds of Quintana Roo, México, confronting Juan Rulfo once again

My daughter, Romy

I just added this beautiful 1985 Steinberger XL-2UF fretless bass to my collection. I’ve always loved fretless basses … they look like diagrams of bass guitars.

I am so woefully out-of-step with such things, but I learned that novelist Paul LaFarge died earlier this year. I wrote one chapter of my dissertation while reading Haussmann, or The Distinction … a wonderful novel that I would not hesitate to assign for an arch. history class.

For the latest issue of Cite Magazine, I wrote a memoir of sorts that focuses on the years 1986/7, my first/second year of high school. It was the year of my first concert—Hüsker Dü at Phideaux’s in downtown Houston—and the year I began playing in punk bands in Houston.

I’m working on a piece about this incredible book that features contributions from old and new colleagues as well from two former teachers who shaped my own trajectories through the history of architecture (Jean-Louis Cohen and Claire Zimmerman.) The task is bittersweet … and infinitely affirming.

My first post here is a good opportunity to showcase my newest acquisition: a Steinberger five-string fretless bass … hire me to play in your Gary Numan tribute band!