On City Noise
Hey, y'all:
It's finally here! The article I wrote for The Atlantic on urban noise, abatement laws, and inequality.
I hope you enjoy it!
2018-02-20 17:52:41 +0000 UTC View Post
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50 States of McMansion Hell: 10 Worst Pennsylvania McMansions
Wonderful coincidence that the Eagles won the Super Bowl.
2018-02-06 22:08:09 +0000 UTC View PostGood House of the Week: Lane County, Oregon
We interrupt our regularly scheduled content to bring you a very important GEODESIC DOME.
Although geodesic domes saw a certain amount of popularity in the 60s and 70s, many have been lost to time. Made famous by architect and inventor R Buckminster Fuller, the geodesic dome became symbolic of 20th century futurism and the zeitgeist of technological advancement.
This home is positively adorable on the inside, with beautiful wood paneling framing the shape of the arc...
2018-01-26 17:45:12 +0000 UTC View Post50 States of McMansion Hell: Lane County, Oregon
stay out of mah swamp donkey
2018-01-26 17:33:27 +0000 UTC View PostLooking Around - On Sound (Part 2): Acoustics
It took forever, but hey, it's a long post!!
2018-01-21 03:12:29 +0000 UTC View Posthey folks!
Didn't want you to think I forgot about you! The second installment to the Looking Around: On Sound series is taking a little longer than anticipated because I'm making some of the drawings by hand.
It should be up later this week.
Best wishes, and Happy MLK Day.
Kate
2018-01-15 20:25:48 +0000 UTC View PostLooking Around - On Sound (Part 1): Noise
yay i used my degree!
2018-01-06 02:40:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Reminder! Livestream at 8 Tonight!
Hey, that's now! Don't worry. I'll be up late.
2017-12-29 00:52:59 +0000 UTC View PostPatreon Stream
I've decided to postpone the Patreon Stream originally scheduled for tonight to Thursday, December 28th at 8PM EST. My family decided to come up to visit me a day earlier than expected, so I will be spending time with them this evening.
Happy Holidays!
2017-12-20 18:27:44 +0000 UTC View PostGood House of the Week: Tulsa County, Oklahoma
This wonderfully bizarre late-modern home is one of the rare, strange cases that ends up making its way through the McMansion Hell search filter. An odd cross between an A-frame and a ranch, this house is full of unique surprises.
Built in 1979, it is larger than standard ranches, and exhibits several late-70s features that would end up evolving into the luxury tropes of the 1980s, and ultimately the bona fide McMansion, including a "two story" foyer, complete with chandelier, formal din...
2017-12-20 18:23:00 +0000 UTC View Post50 States of McMansion Hell: Tulsa County, Oklahoma
it's worth the wait
2017-12-20 18:08:28 +0000 UTC View PostArticle! also Yay!
Hey guys, I wanted to share this article I wrote a little while back for Jacobin (sadly Architectural Digest only wants articles from me about home decorating #fails, leaving the more esoteric stuff to whoever will take it!!) about some critical ideas about McMansions and Postmodernism. This is the article that underlies most of my argument for the paper (see attached) I posted about a few days ago.
Finals are over which means it's time to return to #content. Thank you for your ...
2017-12-15 23:42:49 +0000 UTC View PostPaper???
Would you guys be into reading this paper I wrote for my Sound Studies class about architectural acoustics and the sonic symbols of wealth found in single family homes at the height of the bubble (aka McMansions)?
Patreon Changes
These new fee changes are devastating to creators like me. I make my entire living on Patreon and this severely threatens my financial stability. I am a student with one more semester left of school. These disgustingly greedy changes could destroy my livelihood, my finances, and could leave me unable to pay my rent, bills, and tuition. These changes could literally ruin my life.
As a creator, I am more than happy to pay these fees rather than needlessly burden my Patrons.
I b...
2017-12-07 19:06:20 +0000 UTC View PostMcMansion Hell in Architectural Digest
To tide y'all over to tomorrow, here's my latest for Architectural Digest!
(the best part is the last house is a decent reno but still has the bad shutters warned against in the first part of the article)
2017-12-02 18:53:01 +0000 UTC View PostService Update
Hey folks! I'm coming into the end of my semester, which means it's (unfortunately) time for finals. As such, posts will likely be spotty for the next two weeks. After finals, the posting schedule will return to normal.
To make it up to my wonderful patrons, I will be doing a Patreon stream on Wednesday, December 20th at 8:30 PM EST to celebrate the end of the school year, where I'll be taking your ugly house links and questions. This stream will be available to ...
2017-12-02 18:49:48 +0000 UTC View PostHappy Turkey Day!
Photo of University of Toronto Robarts Library by Dr. K (CC BY-SA 3.0)
2017-11-23 15:51:44 +0000 UTC View PostGood House of the Week: Franklin County, Ohio
This week''s Good House of the Week is especially adorable. It's a meticulous 2006 recreation of a vernacular home design popular in the Midwest: the Parlor-by-Pass floorplan. If the listing didn't tell me the house was new, I genuinely would not have known. While the interior is a little but too trendy for my taste (I've grown rather sick of contractor gray walls after 3 ye...
2017-11-15 19:24:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Looking Around: Reflections on Preservation
I'm not crying, you're crying
2017-11-13 19:56:58 +0000 UTC View PostToday's Post!
Hello All,
Today's post will be postponed until later this week. Tonight, me and my partner are celebrating our anniversary!
To make up for the delay, please enjoy the soft pastels of this extremely 80s vaporwave estate: https://www.redfin.com/OH/Dublin/4837-Macallan-Ct-W-43017/home/79586335
2017-11-08 21:02:06 +0000 UTC View PostGood House of the Week: Cass County, North Dakota
This week's Good House of the Week is relatively quotidian compared to previous installments. What I like about this house is that it demonstrates that you can still build a lovely house with relatively standard, inexpensive materials.
While it's true that I'm no fan of the front-facing garage, I think that by separating it from the main house and building it at a slight angle helps balance out the composition somewhat.
The house goes for a Craftsman-style look with tapered pylons ...
2017-11-02 13:34:34 +0000 UTC View Post50 States of McMansion Hell: Cass County, North Dakota
big house on the prairie
2017-11-01 19:42:35 +0000 UTC View Post
50 States of McMansion Hell: Top 10 Wake County, North Carolina McMansions
an homage to my home state
2017-10-25 21:47:31 +0000 UTC View PostGood House of the Week: Westchester County, New York
Hello Friends! The good news about this county is that there is an abundance of beautiful houses amongst the wreckage of foam and dystopian rooflines. This home, built in 2002, is one of them.
What really impresses me about this home is the authenticity of the materials. Were it not for my "By Year" search filter, I would have been fooled at first glance into thinking this home was original.
Victorian/Queen Anne revival is a difficult style to get right, mostly for this reason alon...
2017-10-20 18:33:22 +0000 UTC View Post50 States of McMansion Hell: Westchester County, New York
it's 90s night
2017-10-20 18:10:24 +0000 UTC View PostLooking Around: On Moving; or, The Story of a Little Old House
Better late than never!
2017-10-15 02:51:18 +0000 UTC View PostGood House of the Week: Bernalillo County, New Mexico
Hello Friends! Today's Good House of the Week is a little unusual. In many Southwestern states, it is popular to imitate the vernacular architecture of the area, in this case, the Adobe or Pueblo style, which imitates the vernacular architecture of Native Americans in the area, specifically the Puebloan people. The revival of Pueblo architecture began in the late 19th and 20th centuries, where it coincided with the Mission and Spanish Colonial Revival styles.
Adobe style houses remain re...
2017-10-04 15:25:20 +0000 UTC View Post