-A thought for the day- Architectural excellence comes from being continually willing to improve upon your shortcomings. -DN

-This is a sculpture I designed and then had welded up and mounted to my office front door. It's a bunch of carpenters "speed-squares," One fine day I saw them hanging up for sale at HomeDepot and I had an IDEA. I laid them out on the floor, "borrowed a tape measure from near by, (also for sale) and confirmed that I could fit them vertically within the door frame. Then off to the check out stand, sans tape measure!

A flower in a field at Santa Monica Airport, once upon a time, called Clover field. So beautiful. Will man ever understand natures complexity in order to create such simple beauty?

Architecture: foundation, cantilevering shaft and a sunlit yellow canopy.

I Stopped by the Millard House (FLW 1932, Pasadena) on the way back from the Structural Engineer's office today so that one of my Project Architects could see it. It is for sale and no one was home. We took our time taking it in and taking some photographs. God......What magnificence!

An Architect's job can be a lonely one and always best done sober.

Since Bohemianism has become institutionalized, paradoxically I am radical by being behaviorily traditional. I am a Neodistablishmentarian.

MAGNASPLENDENT!

L'Etate , c'est moi.

Fate Follows Fantasy.