Adventure is out there! It is a Notre Dame School of Architecture tradition to wear a model on your graduation cap. For years I thought I’d wear a Disney castle on my cap. But then while I was in college, the movie Up came out, and for my thesis I designed a South American–themed hotel and… Read More A Few of My Favorite Things, #19: Up
While I was living in Rome, I made a list of churches I wanted to visit. I would take a walk by myself almost every day to visit a different church—I often revisited the ones in my neighborhood, and then on the weekends, when I had a little more time, I would wander farther away… Read More A Few of My Favorite Things, #16: San Giovanni della Pigna
When I was fourteen years old, I purchased this book while on vacation at Walt Disney World: I had been a Disney fanatic from the time I was a toddler—I collected park maps, watched the free vacation planning videos for fun, and learned everything I could about the parks and the stories behind them. (Was I… Read More A Few of My Favorite Things, #11: Walt Disney Imagineering
Last week I went to a lecture by Professor Duncan Stroik on Franciscan architecture. I had to leave early (downside of living in Jersey), but it was interesting. He talked about the meaning of building a church for the poor in an architectural sense, how the churches of the Franciscan order—an order rooted in poverty—are… Read More Sacred spaces
Linking up with Jen. —1— I work in an old brick building in Greenwich Village with creaky wooden floors that are noticeably slanted, where if you drop a pen it rolls away from you. I kind of love it. Whenever I need to go upstairs, I climb a rickety old staircase that is definitely not… Read More 7 Quick Takes Friday: First edition
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