by Witold | Dec 23, 2010 | Housing
My friend Stan Runyan sent me this photograph the other day. Stan, an architect, collects photos of extravagant houses, what most people call McMansions. Wiki defines McMansion as “a pejorative term for a large new house which is judged as pretentious, tasteless, or...
by Witold | Dec 5, 2010 | Housing
A photograph accompanying an article in the New York Times on the troubled Irish economy shows a planned community with a street of unfinished houses, their construction halted by the slump. What surprised me was their appearance. Despite being in a different culture,...
by Witold | Aug 29, 2010 | Housing
I recently judged an architecture competition organized by the Southern California Chapter of the Institute for Classical Architecture/Classical America and Habitat for Humanity in Los Angeles. The topic was how to design four houses on a very skinny (typical for LA)...
