Thoughts

  Can we build structures using natural, renewable materials, structures that harmonize with the land on which they are built? As an intern architect in the late 80s, I became aware of the great amount of natural resources buildings require, there was a need for architects and builders who are [...more]

The word "sustainability" has become fashionable in our world. It is a necessary goal if our society is to continue, but what does it mean? Is sustainability a technological problem, a social problem, a spiritual problem, or is it a combination of all of them and more? How do you make a whole out of [...more]

I find the term "Continuous Architecture" full of challenge and I find it even more interesting that it should be brought up as a serious topic, now in 1993. Why now? My own formal training was not in architecture but in art and sculpture. When I was a student, action painting was in. It glorified [...more]

I wrote Architecture of Jubilation in 1974. It is still helping to guide my work today. ~ James Hubbell It is my belief that we are passing through a gate from one age to another perhaps more profound than the changes medieval man faced with the rising of Humanism and the age we call the [...more]