What Was I thinking?
What Was I Thinking? Going to try and do this because this is MY suggested topic, so well, what was I thinking? I’m mean I am sitting hear sitting here trying to come off […]
Author Archives: cormacphalen
Back to School Again
I can still end the summer with the wonderment of a school kid starting a new school year, excited to see a new environment with the new interactions of new children seeing the space for the first time, or the teacher maybe seeing a renovation with a fresh perspective. I still feel very much like its going back to school again.
Dear Future Architects
I will say this, stay hopeful, stay optimistic, stay changing and growing, don’t let the pessimistic world drag you down. There will be times when things seem really hard and you feel like giving up and don’t see the point in continuing in a profession that sometimes seems like it only takes and never gives back? But trust me, there will be those times when it does give back and everything will be worth it.
I GOT A ROCK
Life is full of first and it’s those first that create our core memories (yes, I have been watching Inside Out with my kids), I think it was my very […]
Miles and Miles of Road
Summertime is typically the same year after year (especially the last 7 years) while working with a firm whose work primarily is focused on K – 12 work. Summers for […]
Baltimore
In the wake of the recent uproar in Baltimore I started thinking about how we sometimes tend to incorrectly view places in a negative light based on how the news […]
Favorite Things
I think when people heard the topic of the new ArchiTalk #5 “Favorite Things”, and you are of my generation or older most likely you had Julie Andrews twirling around in your head. […]
A PEN BY ANY OTHER NAME IS NOT THE SAME
It goes without saying that architects, designers and artist have a love affair with pens, or is it just me? I have TONS of pens of every shape and sizes, every […]
Life in a day of Panic
I was recently listening to one of the many podcast I have in my queue, since I do a lot of driving I do a lot of listening. This one, […]
The generational story – Architecture as Storytelling
Day breaks on another school day and I find myself dragging my seemingly lifeless body into the dimly lit kitchen as I prepare for another day of routines, getting my […]
Cormac Phalen 