All GLADITORIAL events have been cancelled today due to snow.

And it must be snowing inside the Pantheon!

Another rainy day in Santa Monica which there aren't many of......but being in Architecture always makes me feel sunny!

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!