Why focus on embodied emissions? When I surveyed the landscape of Embodied, Operational, and End-of-Life emissions in the built environment…
From Comfort to Constraint
We moved our bees this spring. From the grid of an urban environment close to the freeway to a meandering…
Willing to Learn
Earlier this 2021, Mary Catherine Bateson passed away while surrounded by her family. I never had the chance to meet…
Embodied & Operational
Cross-posting from buildincentive.com On distinctions and relationships of abstract terms We became parents to a beehive this past March. While…
The Arch. of Complexity, the points that resonate
The points that resonate Herbert Simon’s The Architecture of Complexity is the text I keep returning to when reflecting backwards…
Text notes: Architecture of Complexity
A summary of Herbert Simon’s 1962 essay, “The Architecture of Complexity“ INTRODUCTION Useful concepts from Cybernetics: Feedback, Homeostasis, Analyzing “adaptiveness”…
Climate change: a problem of organized complexity
Problems of organized complexity The case for a simple pattern Concluding her famous ode to cities in 1961, Jane Jacobs…
HVAC systems… what are they?
A short explainer on HVAC. HVAC stands for heating, ventilation, and air conditioning. When we say “HVAC” we most often…
What can a Building Technologist do about Public Health? [Pre-Print]
Pre-Print? This is still a work in progress; I will continue to update this post over the coming weeks This…
What can a building technologist do about climate change? Part 3
WELCOME BACK If you’ve stuck with me this long, thank you! You must be just as much of a buildings…