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Architects for Change

“Ain’t Nobody’s Business But My Own”–Health update with Taj Mahal, Physical Therapy & The Pennsylvania Housing Research Center

August 30, 2015 by joel Leave a Comment

“Man I don’t care what in the world that you do As long as you do what you say you going to” Today is Sunday August 30, 2015. How it got to be 1 PM I do not know. I do know that this ambitious posting will be under construction for a while. Consider the host […]

Joel Goes Painless Update Plus Cancer Surviving Consequences June 7, 2015

June 7, 2015 by joel Leave a Comment

By way of continuity…. This is a report on my health and my plans to improve it. While you are certainly welcome here, note this is the kind of personal communication associated with emails to my daughters, family, and loved ones. See: https://joelsolkoff.com/joel-goes-painless-inaugural-edition-may-10-2015-254-pm-est/ ++++ Today’s update in one [long] paragraph The primary purpose of this ongoing […]

Published today in Scotland: Detroit trendy city, covering Renzo Piano’s opening of the new Whitney in the Meatpacking District of Manhattan, pain relief through radio waves, not outlandish walking again for the first time in 25 years through NYC technology

April 13, 2015 by joel Leave a Comment

No fair. You can not read the entire article here because Isabelle Lomholt and Adrian Welch just published Joel’s Column in Scotland to an audience of nearly one million hits a day from architects and the building community. Go to Scotland. Read Detroit Trendy City in Scotland where it was meant to be read first […]

Past Wyoming AIA President today sent me a photograph taken yesterday of wildlife seen from her window at Nelson’s Architects

March 17, 2015 by joel Leave a Comment

  Photograph copyright 2015 by Nelson Architects. Permission to publish the view architect Colleen Nelson took yesterday from her office window .Colleen J. Nelson, AIA LEED-AP. NELSON ARCHITECTS, LLC 214 North Broadway P.O. Box 1244 Riverton, WY 82501 307.856.6155 p. nelsonarchitects@wyoming.com

February 2015 motto

February 2, 2015 by joel Leave a Comment

“Finance was soon a power of its own. It principal driving force was Bob McNamara, and [his] basic philosophy was: “Whatever the product men and the manufacturing men want, deny it. “Make them sweat and then make them present it again, and once again delay it as long as possible. If in the end it […]

Belated April 2014 Motto

April 10, 2014 by joel Leave a Comment

“A biologist who turned later in life to city planning [Patrick] Geddes had begun a series of civic surveys and town revitalization projects in Edinburgh in the 1890s, publishing his results in a series of books and reports that fired young [Lewis] Mumford’s interest in the city. Mumford did not set out to be a […]

Chapter 5. Dr. Kumar’s thesis on virtual reality modeling

March 1, 2014 by joel Leave a Comment

Chapter 5: CASE STUDY- HERSHEY CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL This chapter introduces the healthcare case study used for data collection, development and evaluation of the procedure for rapidly developing an Experience-based virtual prototype. The first part of the chapter introduces the case study, lays out the program requirements for the healthcare facility, the project description, status and […]

March 2014 Motto

February 27, 2014 by joel Leave a Comment

Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person. — Zaha Hadid  

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Five Hours a Day in the Saddle: The Pacific Coast School of Horsemanship ( written for the San Francisco Chronicle in 1972; never published; now at age 73 the article I wrote when I was 22)

June 5, 2021 By joel

Remembering Jean and Marvin Staiman and their love of Israel

June 2, 2021 By joel

Laugh and weep: NURSING HOMES BY JOHN OLIVER

April 17, 2021 By joel

1971 birthday letter to my father

December 20, 2020 By joel

If by Rudyard Kipling

December 20, 2020 By joel

Grandfather (that’s me) relocating to NYC to save my life at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

December 2, 2020 By joel

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  • Radio hate monger of the 1930s Father Coughlin returns to Fox News
  • A fine romance with no kisses
  • The US Needs a New Capitol City: Covid Agenda Item
  • We who are about to die…or architecture
  • Disability bathroom design
  • Covid 19 has accelerated the need for a new utilitarian architecture: Architecture for the vulnerable ( like me)
  • Covid-19 Architects: “We Who Are About to Die Salute You”
  • 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
  • Rain: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
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  • 1. PHOENIX REHAB1. PHOENIX REHAB With the help of the gifted Alicia Spence, I begin to walk.

  • 2. SMART SPACES FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING2. SMART SPACES FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING "The demographics of baby boomer aging over the next decade foreshadow great economic, political and cultural changes that could overwhelm many developed countries," said Richard Behr, founding director of the Center.

  • 3. IMMERSIVE CONSTRUCTION (ICon) LAB3. IMMERSIVE CONSTRUCTION (ICon) LAB My home in virtual reality, the ICon lab shows 3D and 4D (the fourth dimension is Time) models on 3 eight-foot hight screens; when the lights go off, put on the 3-D glasses.

  • 4. AMIGO MOBILITY4. AMIGO MOBILITY CEO Al Thieme created the first Power Operated Vehicle (POV) scooter. Most manufacturers separate their battery chargers from the scooter. You can plug an Amigo right into an electric socket .

  • 5. T & B MEDICAL5. T & B MEDICAL "Travis and Barb Barr, the 'T' and 'B' behind T & B Medical, Inc. have one goal in mind...to attend to every client's individual" mobility and durable equipment needs. I am a continual customer and recommend T&B highly--HIGHLY.

  • 6. INVACARE6. INVACARE Invacare is the world's leading manufacturer of wheelchairs, bariatric equipment, disability scooters, respiratory products and other homecare products.

  • ACCESSIBILITY FROM APPLEACCESSIBILITY FROM APPLE For the disability community, computer technology creates the ability to engage in computer design of aging-in-place housing.

  • CAREGIVER VILLAGECAREGIVER VILLAGE Using a virtual reality world, Caregiver Village improve the lives of family caregivers. Second Life, eat your heart out.

  • EMAIL MEEMAIL ME I once had a boss who loved focus groups. One afternoon at a shopping mall, readers of my newsletter told me EXACTLY what they thought, not knowing I was behind the one-way mirror. Please do the same.

  • HME NEWSHME NEWS HME News is the monthly business newspaper for 17,000 home medical equipment providers.

  • McKEESPORTMcKEESPORT "The decrease in the population since the 1940s is attributable to the general economic malaise that descended upon the region when the steelmaking industry moved elsewhere. The major employer WAS the National Tube Works, a manufacturer of steel pipes.

  • MONONGAHELA RIVERMONONGAHELA RIVER George Washington crossed the Monongahela into McKeesport to bring rum to the his friend, Queen Alliquippa, a Seneca Indian ruler. This was during the French and Indian Wars, Remember them?

  • NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND

  • PENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIATION OF REHABILITATION FACILITIES (PARF)PENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIATION OF REHABILITATION FACILITIES (PARF) PARF represents the Commonwealth's premier facilities serving individuals with physical, mental, and emotional disabilities. Traditionally, the highlight of the disability community is the annual conference at the Nittany Lion Inn at the Penn State campus

  • YOUGHIOGHENY RIVERYOUGHIOGHENY RIVER McKeesport is where the Youghiogheny and Monongahela Rivers meet. Fresh fish like the Walleye are back at the Youghiogheny, now that factories that created jobs are no longer polluting the river.

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