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Peter VanderPoel
12 minutes ago1 min read
Capital Yacht Club Nocturne
Watercolor on paper
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Peter VanderPoel
Jan 141 min read
Café and Sunlight - watercolor on cold press
Café and Sunlight - Watercolor on Cold Press
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Peter VanderPoel
Nov 26, 20240 min read
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Peter VanderPoel
Sep 17, 20244 min read
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 13, 20243 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 1, 20243 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 17, 20243 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 30, 20244 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 26, 20243 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 5, 20244 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 5, 20244 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 27, 20243 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 25, 20244 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 10, 20244 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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