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14/10/2026

Architect Ralph Adams Cram wrote horror stories (true!) when he wasn’t busy filling the world with buildings. His works make a great Halloween read. He worked from the heart, maintaining the view that: “Just behind intellect there is a vision that is purer, keener, more powerful than the vision of your eyes, than the hearing of your ears, than the touch of your hands. This world is being transformed into another which comes into being at our spiritual touch. The world needs something personal, something from the heart.”

11/10/2026

I’ve been writing and researching lately, and am so grateful to have quiet places to work. If you can’t find me …I’m probably here.

02/04/2026

Consistency is key - for trust. Systems that doublecheck everything are needed so that small mistakes don’t set relationships back to square one. I do a lot of mentoring and it’s one of the key points. I am impressed upon younger designers, that small gaps or mistakes reset relationships to zero. That’s what makes them costly. In a world, daysailers, cruisers, and power boats… Be the lobsterman.

11/03/2026

That painting on my desk, like most things in the Chase Design Services studio, has a story. Joe is the poster child for “chucking it all to reach for the stars.” His journey is extraordinary, and I was fortunate to connect with him at a major inflection point before he left the states. He’s back and his story only gets more amazing. His work reminds me that there’s no construction without some demo, there’s no transformation without change, and sometimes you have to break things open so they can fall together. I’m so grateful to him for sharing his incredible passion with all of us. .tavares.9275

02/01/2026

2026 looks bright: Ochre-gold-honey-mango bright! When my mother was working on the historic paint study to discover the original colors for the Hancock-Clarke house in Lexington her research needed to be impeccable: each assumption supported, every fact documented. Historic preservation sometimes evolves, our understanding of what to do with primary source information might shift and deepen, but there’s a commitment to the truth that underlies it all. May your new year be full of truth, discovery, and bright beautiful buildings.

12/09/2025

Fall fires are the best: friends, food, hanging around talking until late, until we’ve burned it all down to the embers. Firegazing, storytelling, … hearthkeeping at its best. At my house the fire pit is an old cast-iron cauldron, and even it has a story. I hope everyone gets a chance to tell their story this Fall, whatever circle you might be sitting in, whatever fire you might be around, I hope everyone gets to be heard.

11/09/2025

The Beautiful and Talented Allie Keast fixing my favorite ring: there’s just nothing like meeting the maker. And then there’s nothing like going back to see her again when it needs a little fix and being welcomed into her whole magical workshop full of stones and plants and friends and inspiration. When’s the last time you got an awesome hug from your jeweler? It’s no secret that I support craftspeople. But this level of service and attention was, well, next level.

12/08/2025

Built by Turner Construction Company and designed by le Corbusier, Harvard’s color-blocked Carpenter Center has always been one of my favorites. Teaching yesterday at the North Bennett Street School put me in mind of Corbu’s “five points” of design and reminded that when the process has intention and integrity, the outcome is ordered and beautiful. Thank you very much to Brock, Marc, Claire, the BAC, NBSS, and of course the students who asked amazing questions and were a delight.

01/08/2024

Sails, seats, awnings, Summer umbrellas: what would we do without canvas! Someone called the office this week, looking for help installing triangular sunshades. While not strictly architectural, we had a great conversation about Solar orientation, outdoor entertaining, and making sure the points of attachment wouldn’t pull the siding off the house. Homeowners have all kinds of building questions and, my team kind of prides itself on being able to problem solve on the fly and show up for you when you need it most. And now that I know the tensile strength ofsunshade.canvas - I look at Café umbrellas with new respect!

05/07/2024

They built this country, they bolted it together: the people who came before us put this thing together. They created infrastructure and they gave people rights and they created this beautiful place we get to call home. I look at this piece of steel work in the industrial building where I work and I think of them. Did you know that the women business ownership act of 1988 prohibited state laws that required women to secure a male relative as their cosigner on business loans? As recently as 1988. The ones who came before us built this thing. It’s our job to not let it fall apart. That’s my fourth of July wish.

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