Monthly Archives: December 2010

Sustainability Thursday: New Products to get Excited about

By Rusty | Published: December 30, 2010

All the big sustainability blogs have their ‘Best of 2010’ and the like. Here are four favorites I’ve come across this year: IdeaPaint: Both the dad, and the designer in me love this one. Non toxic, and it lets the little ones ‘color-color’ on the walls. (Note: potential drawback, both dads and kids may assume […]

Posted in Sustainability | Tagged Bosch, duo-gard, ideapaint, richlite, sustainability thursday | Comments closed

Photos from the Road

By Rusty | Published: December 29, 2010

Today, I drove down to Creswell, NC for a C/A meeting at Pettigrew State Park. For the record, I was stopped while taking each of these photos. (An easy feat when the usual travel speed drops to 20-30 miles per hour at best.) The park and nearby fields are quite gorgeous in this snow. Though construction was […]

Posted in Other | Tagged ice, Photography, snow | Comments closed

NC State’s College of Design on Affordable Housing

By Rusty | Published: December 28, 2010

Like most Architects, I’m an affordable housing geek. As such, every time the subject comes up, I’m drawn like a moth to flame. If you follow my twitter, you’ve probably seen a small taste of my readings on the subject. Apparently I missed the publication, just a few weeks ago, by professor Thomas Barrie of […]

Posted in Architecture | Tagged Affordable Housing, college of design, ncsu, thomas barrie, wake county | Comments closed

House Catalogs

By Rusty | Published: December 28, 2010

It’s a well-known secret among friends and family, that in addition to my fascination with contemporary modernist residential design, and present applications of prefabricated housing; I also am absolutely amazed by past offerings and early forays into the Utopian universe of prefab. Knowledge is mastery — the modern homebuilder knows his wants, sees his home […]

Posted in Architecture | Tagged Aladdin Homes, case study houses, housing, prefab, Stanmar Leisure Homes | Comments closed

Homelessness and Relationships

By Rusty | Published: December 20, 2010

Charity is something I never thought much about when younger. Sure I knew the made-for-TV idea of Christmas, but in my mind it was always an abstract ideal, and an unrealistic concept. At some point this changed. A softened heart? Growing up? I can’t quantify the change really, and I don’t have a clear demarcation […]

Posted in Architecture, Christianity | Tagged Affordable Housing, Homelessness, Hugh Hollowell, Love Wins | Comments closed