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  My Architectural Roots: Home is Where the Tree Fort Is

  I have been making forts as long as I can remember. In fact, it’s one of my earliest memories. Me, my brother and sister making a blanket tent in our game room. We used volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica (Dad…
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  If These Walls Could Talk

  Sacramento has had a renaissance of large-scale art exhibitions recently, including Art Hotel and Art Street, allowing the community to experience an immense amount of art in one place for a select period of time. In September, Tearing Walls…
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  When Culinary Adventure Club Gets Real

  “People who love to eat are always the best people.” ~Juilia Child      Culinary Adventure Club (CAC) was just a silly name I used to get people in the office out for lunch at places most of…
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  Ronald Reagan Slept Here

  Some big things are happening in downtown Sacramento, and one of them is the revitalization of the Mansion Inn, a late-50’s-era motor hotel near and dear to our firm. Having originally designed and expanded the inn for the first thirty…
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  The lost art of sketching / architectural model making Part 2

    You can’t do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh. — John Singer Sargent   Sketch by Chris Holt The Unfinished Business of Sketching Sketch remains the elementary method…
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