Peter VanderPoel
Aesthleticism (sic)
The Paris Olympics recently closed. Along with the well-known track and field, swimming, diving, there was a new sport added:Breakdancing...
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Peter VanderPoel
Aug 133 min read
The Allure of Ambi...Part III In Not So Many Words...
“For Sale-Baby Shoes-Never Worn” Ernest Hemingway, so the story goes, was challenged to write a story in the fewest words possible. His...
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Peter VanderPoel
Jul 13 min read
The Allure of Amb... Part II Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before...
The Yugo was a compact, inexpensive automobile imported from the former Yugoslavia in the late 1980’s early 1990’s. That they were...
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Peter VanderPoel
Jun 173 min read
The Allure of Amb... (Part I)
I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won’t contribute anything themselves. Give...
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Peter VanderPoel
Apr 304 min read
Life Raft Refloated
Every year, the Philosophy Club at the University of Montevallo in Alabama holds the Life Raft Debate. Audience members are asked to...
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Peter VanderPoel
Mar 263 min read
Critical Exposure
A Chicago historian, John Maloof, was looking for information about his neighborhood and came across a storage locker at auction that...
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Peter VanderPoel
Mar 54 min read
Weighing In-LEED vs PH
I recently started a weight loss program. For me, diets could be considered a chronic condition. It brings to mind the Mark Twain quote,...
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Peter VanderPoel
Feb 54 min read
Alexa, Finish These Construction Documents
A book I’m reading, Merleau-Ponty for Architects, mentions a question regarding tools. Where is the boundary for a human and their...
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Peter VanderPoel
Jan 273 min read
AI in A and I
Javad, There was a poem from Lao Tzu, written several thousand years ago, that I had given as a graphic design assignment in Design...
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Peter VanderPoel
Jan 254 min read
Aesthetics by a Nose
I was at a homey, homely seafood restaurant along the Potomac not too long ago. As is the fashion now, televisions dotted the walls so...
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Peter VanderPoel
Jan 104 min read
Hats Off to Quality
For my birthday, my sister sent me a Shetland Fisherman’s that she knit herself. A similar hat could have been purchased online or at any...
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Peter VanderPoel
Jul 13, 20232 min read
Keep What You Got
Passive House Before the widespread use of mechanical heating and air conditioning, all houses were passive houses. New England...
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Peter VanderPoel
Jul 6, 20211 min read
Washington Post Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/realestate/house-in-mclean-va-pays-hommage-to-frank-lloyd-wright-and-piet-mondrian/2021/07/01/20152862-d69...
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Peter VanderPoel
Jun 25, 20194 min read
Athletic Aesthetics
Soccer is known as “The beautiful game”. But other sports are just as beautiful. The rules or the shape of the ball is not what interests...
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