Journal

• 18 June 2026

  What a building owes the street

  Infill housing gets judged on unit count and rarely on the thing that actually determines whether a block works.

  Essay
• 11 February 2026

  Reading an old building before you change it

  Notes from three years inside a 1926 foundry, and what the building told us to leave alone.

  Essay
• 30 September 2025

  Against the courtyard scheme

  Why we keep arguing for street frontage even when the pro forma prefers a doughnut.

  Essay
• 14 July 2025

  On buildings that survive their maintenance budget

  Civic architecture is a fifty-year proposition. Most specifications are written for five.

  Essay
• 5 November 2024

  Elm & Ash opens to residents

  Fourteen homes on a single East Nashville block, four of them permanently affordable.

  News
• 12 September 2024

  Ridgeline Studio completes in Leiper's Fork

  A nine-hundred square foot studio, built in fourteen weeks, with no air conditioning and no regrets.

  News

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