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As summer ends and fall school enrollment looms, the question of how higher education will endure. For years, remote learning has slowly...

Our postal system has made the news recently, but let’s digress from the political discussions and look at the bricks and mortar, the...

When I was a young intern architect working with WED, Walt Disney’s design and construction arm, I built models of Cal Art’s campus,...

Today, we are consumed with the COVID-19 Pandemic ravishing our Nation. However, we cannot forget that we are subject to other natural...

One additional Pandemic casualty is Napa City’s ambitious plan to build a new Civic Center. Since March, the virus’s economic impact on...

Dan and Naoko Mufson marked the third anniversary of the Atlas Fire that destroyed their home by moving into their rebuilt home, putting...

Everybody loves to visit a restaurant. Whether it’s a basic tavern, or a high-end brasserie’, our fondest memories reside in them.

One especially hard-hit victim of the COVID-19 pandemic is the cruise ship industry. From their 2020 projected 32 million passengers to...

Architects, engineers and contractors, commonly called AEC, are constantly looking for the “next big thing”. Design professionals...

COVID-19 has exposed us to serious flaws in our society. Now we see how our lower paid but essential workers...

The Pandemic’s three months of shelter-in-place may have changed our lifestyles and proximity to one another forever.

Are bookless libraries in our future? In today’s world of instantaneous information, what relevancy do brick and mortar libraries have in...

Chris d Craiker AIA/NCARB One way to escape the COVID-19 Pandemic is to move off the grid into the wilderness. I sometimes feel...

In architectural school, we studied ancient Roman bathhouses: huge public facilities citizens used for physical therapy and relaxation....

Sheltering at home will be ingrained in us for years to come and could be the world’s future reality. The fact that one tiny virus from a...

Napa County has been an exceptional Bay Area success in this pandemic war. While among the lowest testing and deaths rates, Napa is...

Every day the Pandemic is taking a toll on people and construction across the country. Currently, the National lock down is under very...

Even before the COVID- 19 epidemic ravished the US economy, the retail industry was in dire straits. Online or “non-store” purchasing had...

Both science fiction and building visionaries have anticipated robots as integral to the future of housing. In today’s world of chronic...

After World War 1, Germany was devastated and burdened with huge debt repayments. One German architect wished to raise the standards of...