Bernie and me. Bernie retired last Thursday, January 7th 2010. I worked with him for twenty years and it choked me up when he gave me the news.

I learned a lot working with him. I learned a lot about carpentry and making things and thinking about what I was designing that would eventually be built, often by him. You have to throw away a lot of junk before you get to goods. And after you get to the reality there is more work to make it a little more beautiful and then a hell of lot more work to get it built and built right.

If I may paraphrase my hero, Louis H. Sullivan....I have to say that in design: "Fact follows fiction." Bernie helped me to see reality more clearly. He helped me to lose the bullshit. He helped me get to the truth more expeditiously. I will miss him a lot.

A new design of a glass and reinforced concrete seating terrace for Mr. Jim Goldstein's beautifully landscaped hillside property in Beverly Hills. He has approved it!

However, the high only lasts so long. I need to do a NEW design....Feeling like a junkie with out his fix.

May next year bring a better economy and may next year be fruitful! Happy New Year!

Columns have arrived! Primal architectural elements. And they shall stand for thousands of years.

Satisfaction found in a hard days work. A Repair job done last Friday, on an important work of Architecture: John Lautner's Sheats/Goldstein House, 1963.

Remember that this document allows us to be independent from the pressure of architectural STYLE but most importantly to be free from Government control, even our own! Have a Happy 4th of July!

A new design for a family in Topanga, California. The IDEA is a cantilevered living space (both floor and its' ceiling) back toward the hill side, thus freeing up structure to take in Nature and to answer the Building regulation of non invasive encroachment into the driplines of the native Oak Trees. Otherwise and unbuildable site....thanks to the STATE. But here Form Follows Function and not Fill up a random Form with Functions! This is Architecture, it is not a shopping bag.

I have always thought that Stanley Kubricks scene in 2001 depicting the very first human idea to be magnificent!