Vagrants
October 12, 2023 Foundation The lighting is bad tonight, I could write anything, spell things wrong, wouldn’t know the difference. The city is slow. We can talk about growth, and we want to talk about growth, but then we look…
Values
Thursday, 10/5/23 Grandad Bonded Foundation Reading a book about Values-it started as a book about leadership, and then it turned into a book about Values, bait and switch. Part one was about leading other people, and then part two turned…
Waiting for the mail
September 28, 2023 Foundation Eagle Rare, NC Single Barrel Writing two weeks in a row – on a good week, it’s progressive, it’s part of the story, it’s all uphill from here. On a week like this, it’s about staring…
Thursday Recap – Maintenance
9/21/23 Foundation Wild Turkey Rare Breed Thursday recap, whiplash, and still a long way from Friday milestones. Started the week with payroll, mid-week with meetings about process, finally today, finding a groove, drawing a thing in Bluebeam; keeping the balls…
Slow Urbanism
The next chapter of this GREEN | URBAN | SMART story is to say that architecture happens in cities. We all enjoy a barn in a field, we celebrate Versailles on a great lawn, but then we’re back in the…
Green Urban Smart – Part 1
When I sat down here, I knew what to write. Now I forgot. Our marketing shop asked us about our goals, the way marketing shops like to do. Who are we? What do we want to do? Who is our…
Headed back home to writing.
Met with our marketing consultant last week (or so), mentioned re-booting the website. They’re bringing us back to WordPress. Feels like I haven’t been able to write since we left. And, for those who know what I mean – if…
form and what
We architects are rivals against non-places, completely uninterested in the virtual. Renderings and models have always been a challenge – if you want to see what this will be like, let’s build it and find out. The drawings are simply…
blogpost – all the changes at once
We’re moving the blog to our home website. Please track with us at http://www.aoarchitect.com/conversation/ Wordpress is amazing. That’s enough changes for a while. Now, we’re just unpacking boxes, cleaning up, and getting back to work. Andrew Osterlund AIA LEED AP…
blogpost – transition again
This is a first attempt at working through some news. There’s a good deal to process here, but then again, not that much. To be technical, OsterlundHall is being dissolved. The intention at this point, the plan for Monday morning,…