Monthly Archives: October 2023
A big man
Henry Hobson Richardson was an influential architect active in the late 1800s and based in Boston. I learned about him by reading Architects of an American Landscape by Hugh Howard which I originally picked up because I thought it was going to mostly be about Frederick Law Olmstead but turned out to be more of…
Big Things
As a rule, I stay away from self improvement books. I often find them not that helpful and the lessons are useless if you don’t have a plan to implement them anyway. I made an exception for “How Big Things Get Done” by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner, though, since it came recommended by a…