Joel Solkoff’s Column Vol. VI, Number 5 DATELINE Thursday, November 19, 2020. Williamsport Pennsylvania, a town of 28,000 people (a treasure trove of architecture) 178 miles southeast over rotten roads to Philadelphia’s Independence Hall where my fathers (mothers did not apply) ratified the Constitution of the United States.Reality here in the county seat of Lycoming […]
Disability and Elderly Issues
We who are about to die…or architecture
Disability bathroom design
Redesign suggestions for the bathroom— Most dangerous room in the house . Overview Cautionary note: The intent of this analysis is to pour cold water on the sense of accomplishment one achieves from renovating a residence to make it wheel chair accessible. A residence in the wrong place is no residence at all. After all, the elderly and […]
Covid 19 has accelerated the need for a new utilitarian architecture: Architecture for the vulnerable ( like me)
Let us start with my editors here at e-architect who for the past ten years have supporting me in my steadily increasing grandiosity: Sunset for the vulnerable and what architects can do about it Dateline: Thursday September 3, 2020. Rural beautiful Lycoming County Pennsylvania, United States. After a lifetime of living somewhere else, this is […]
Covid 19 impasse: Why architects need to know how a member of the US Congress must be expelled by the end of the month and how that relates to building emergency housing at a time when its absence is deadly and dangerous
“A nation divided against itself cannot stand,” Abraham Lincoln said in New York City in a speech that many believe resulted in his receiving the hotly contested Republican nomination Whatever do Congress’s rules to your architecture practice? Seek and you shall find. Until then, trust be that this is relevant: “The Constitution empowers both the House and […]
Rain: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
“Boy, I got vision. The rest of the world wears bifocals.” — Paul Newman as Butch Cassidy ( written while I am wearing bifocals.) ”All I know is John Wayne don’t run away.” John Wayne once granted me a telephone interview on his experiences with cancer. For those readers too young to remember [a concept that defies […]
Theo van Gogh’s The Interview
Wikipedia: Murder Van Gogh was shot and stabbed by Mohammed Bouyeri while cycling to work on 2 November 2004 at about 9 o’clock in the morning.[9] Bouyeri also injured some bystanders and left on the scene a note containing death threats to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who went into hiding.[10] The note also threatened Western countries and Jews, and referred to ideologies […]
March March from The Chicks: My Personal Anthem
” NASHVILLE, Tennessee, USA (AP) – Country group The Dixie Chicks has removed the word Dixie from its name, and is now simply called The Chicks. Her social media and website accounts were adjusted Thursday to reflect the change. The award-winning group of Martie Maguire, Natalie Maines and Emily Strayer also recognized that the new name is […]