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Spent some quality time Sunday with the family at the site, trimming back the expanding foam insulation that we've use to seal the ga...

Our garage door installer completed the installation of the garage door this afternoon. The house is now fully secure, so we can move ahea...

Eytan Fichman, my undergraduate thesis advisor - and the very model of a mentor whose example as an educator is never far from my mind - s...

Yesterday, our window installer ( Astor Windows ) came by to install the last window, which had to be re-fabricated. The fenestration is n...

The city's plumbing inspector signed off on our rough plumbing this morning. Everything looks good - our plumber, Ross Terrano , has t...

We spent much of Thursday and today spraying foam insulation into the gap between the wall panels and the roof decking. Normally, the insu...

Our plumber has been completing the rough plumbing this week. He installed two bathtubs, which involved using a fairly dry mix of cement ...

Why yes, that does appear to be our photo of steel reinforcement bars showing up as stock photography in web sites across the Middle East...

Flying home from a few days in Boston for the centennial ACSA Annual Meeting offers a chance to reflect on architecture and education. B...

Purely at random, sitting in Logan Airport, just saw the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Its composite fuselage makes it lighter and more aerod...

As the house gets closer to being habitable , we're thinking ahead to how fun it will be to garden in South Florida. We're particu...

Some photos of the house, now that the doors and (nearly all the) windows are installed. The front door is large (8 feet tall), which make...

Some detail photos of the solar panels , up close. These are peel-and-stick, amorphous silicon, thin film panels that arrive rolled up w...

And just like that, the 40 photovoltaic panels were set in place today. Jordan, Jorge and the crew from Electron Solar set the p/v pan...

Just when we thought we'd spend the next few days writing about the fantastic door and window installation at tin box , the crew from ...

Our window and door supplier, Astor Windows , installed the three swinging doors today. That's the front door at left. It has an integ...

At one point, this was the bee's knees. Fifty years ago, smart people thought highways were awesome. They represented freedom and prog...

At some point yesterday, tin box recorded its 20,000th page view (hello, Reykjavik!). Our steel exterior panels are complete (except f...

Over the next week we'll fabricate trim pieces to cover the rough openings between the panels and the structural members. We're us...

Big day at tin box today. Astor Windows began installing our windows. Along with Steelcom completing the installation of the exterior wal...

With the last exterior panels installed at the living and dining rooms, we have a stronger sense of the spatial qualities of that part of ...

The shell of the house is nearing completion. We needed to have several exterior wall panels remade, and they are being installed this wee...

Our exhibition, Metropole/Colony: Africa and Italy , opened Wednesday night at the Frost Art Museum on FIU's main campus. My colleague...

Four new exhibitions open tonight at the Frost Art Museum at FIU , including Metropole/Colony: Africa and Italy . I curated the show with...

A peacock in the park next to tin box . Our site visits are getting more colorful.

There are some amazing birds around tin box . We're not sure what this creature is. It looks like a cross between a chicken and a vult...

At the risk of running afoul of child labor laws , we also put Lydia to work varnishing the new construction site sign. The sign is made o...

The insulated wall panels have a layer of plastic on the exterior side that protects the finish. Peeling it off is somewhat addictive, an...

A quick site visit this evening with friend of tin box , Peter Lang . It was an unusually overcast afternoon in Miami, but that gave way t...

We've been playing with the CNC (computer numerical control) milling machine at FIU's School of Architecture. This is a new techno...