Library thoughts

                                       
One of the raging historic preservation controversies here in Washington revolves around our central library, the MLK library downtown.  Designed and constructed in 1972, the building is DC’s only Mies van der Rohe. The city has threatened to demolish the structure, or to move the library elsewhere, perhaps making way for demolition. And the [...]

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Reflections

Revising our cities changes the way we think of places, and the way we think of ourselves as belonging. Sometimes, these changes substantially alter the image that citizens have of their home places. And occasionally, as in Millennium Park in Chicago, these changed perceptions can be very big, and very good.  
Sometimes individual buildings in the [...]

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We begin

I am laughing this morning. I have been trying to figure out how to start the conversation here, and when I confessed this just now to Amy she said “You’re having trouble talking? You?!…” I am chastened.
And so we begin in the middle of things, as ever. Stepping away from the day-to-day life of our jobs, [...]

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