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THE ARCHITECTURE OF BELONGING
Dear Friends … Most of us know the feeling of entering a place where we immediately sense that we belong. It may be a neighborhood ...
DESIGNING FOR THE SECOND VISIT
Dear Friends … According to research published in Frontiers in Psychology, people form lasting impressions of a place within moments, but those impressions continue to ...
THE ROOMS THAT REMEMBER US
Dear Friends … There are rooms we leave behind without ever really leaving. Years can pass. The furniture changes. The paint fades. Someone else lives ...
DESIGNING FOR PAUSE
Dear Friends … Modern life is built around motion. We move from meeting to meeting, task to task, destination to destination. We measure progress in ...
THE SPACES BETWEEN
Dear Friends … When we think about places that have left a lasting impression on us, we often remember the destination. A favorite hotel. A ...
The First Thirty Feet
Dear Friends … Commercial developments are often planned from an aerial perspective, focusing on site acreage, leasable square footage, unit mix, and parking counts. While ...
DESIGNING EMOTION
Dear Friends … Everyone has walked into a space and immediately felt something—calm, tension, comfort, unease. Whether they notice it or not, these reactions reveal ...
REFLECTING FORWARD
Dear Friends … January is a good month to look forward and to anticipate exciting future advancements. As I enter my 46th year practicing architecture, ...
A Year In Celebration
December 2025 the FUNOMENAL CHRONICLE A NEWSLETTER FROM YOUR FRIENDS AT ODA ARCHITECTURE VOLUME 71 A YEAR IN CELEBRATION HAPPY HOLIDAYS Dear Friends … As ...
Value Integration: Infill Mixed-Use Development
Dear Friends… Value engineering has become one of the most defining, and often misunderstood, phases of a project’s life. For Owners, it marks the point ...
Soulful Subconscious
Nashville Dual Brand Canopy Homewood Suites Nashville, TennesseeOwner: Chartwell HospitalityCivil: Barge DesignLandscape: Lose Design & DevelopmentStructural: I.C. Thomasson AssociatesMEP: PNE (Perry, Netherland & Engineers) Dear ...
