Dan's Architecture Blog

Today, I decided to go look for a particularly well-known piece of Bay Area architecture: The First Church of Christ Scientist in Berkeley. The church was designed in 1910 by Bernard Maybeck, who is perhaps the most famous Bay Area architect (although...

So some people (i.e. Dad) have been nagging me about not updating my blog for a long time. Well, I've been busy looking for a job, but that doesn't mean I'm not exploring the built environment at the same time!
Right now, I'm in gorgeous northern California. I'm staying in an old suburb of Oakland called Piedmont. Piedmont is, as the name suggests, built on the lower slopes of the mountains behind Oakland. The town is picturesque and reminds me of English garden...

Sorry I haven't posted for a long time. A really long time. The reason is that I still haven't gotten a digital camera, so there is a pretty limited range of stuff I can write about without taking pictures. I had originally intended to personally photograph...

Today, there are basically two building blocks in Durham now that the tobacco and textile industries are all but gone. The first is, obviously, Duke University. The other is Research Triangle Park, a gigantic business park that employs residents in Durham...