Charles Edward Coughlin (/ˈkɒɡlɪn/ KOG-lin; October 25, 1891 – October 27, 1979), commonly known as Father Coughlin, was a Canadian-American Roman Catholic priest who was based in the United States near Detroit. He was the founding priest of the National Shrine of the Little Flower church. He was one of the first political leaders to use radio to reach a mass audience: during the 1930s, an estimated 30 […]
Disability and Elderly Issues
A fine romance with no kisses
A Fine Romance Frank Sinatra A fine romance, with no kissesA fine romance, my friend this isWe should be like a couple of hot tomatoesBut you’re as cold as yesterday’s mashed potatoesA fine romance, you won’t nestleA fine romance, you won’t wrestleI might as well play bridgeWith my old maid auntI haven’t got a chanceThis […]
The US Needs a New Capitol City: Covid Agenda Item
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 […]
We who are about to die…or architecture
Disability bathroom design
Appendix: Redesign suggestions for the bathroom— Most dangerous room in the house . This e-architect exclusive is a hitherto unpublished section from my book “Renovating Existing Housing to Make It Wheel Chair Accessible.” 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 […]
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 […]