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kgordon
Feb 14, 20237 min read
Penance
As I crest the ninth drop of 12 on the Coney Island Cyclone ride of this life, I’m looking for a career change. Something less office...
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kgordon
Nov 15, 20228 min read
Scoutus Interruptus
(Warning- this post is boorishly full of the first person singular tense) I’ve become a hermit. Saint Kevin of Cobb. (For anyone...
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kgordon
Jan 12, 20228 min read
Cleaven
A quarter-century ago, I was exiled out of New York. The bridge and tunnel crossings were closed to me. When asked to explain my...
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kgordon
Jun 17, 202013 min read
PARADOX OF SOURCES
Six times zones from Atlanta, and forty years apart, I was enrolled at the Architecture Association of London, trying to understand what...
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kgordon
May 6, 20204 min read
NEW NORMAL
I always tell inquirers that I left New York for Atlanta because of the Federal Witness Protection Program. Two adaptations have been...
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kgordon
Feb 10, 20206 min read
WHAT'S IN A NAME?
This proclamation will surprise those familiar with my narrow band of emotions, but I have a CERTIFICATE OF LIVE BIRTH from the State of...
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kgordon
Dec 16, 20196 min read
Manual Labor
I taught for a few years after graduate school. I wasn’t very good at it, owing to both the lack of any truly meaningful insights of...
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kgordon
May 22, 20196 min read
Turntable in the Shower
I worked most evenings in high school. Not so much out of economic necessity, dates and gas were cheap in rural Ohio in the 70’s, but...
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kgordon
May 22, 20193 min read
The Dead-Line
For most of us, I mean those of us who were publicly schooled and didn’t suffer the reality of a boarding school, the Julian calendar...
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kgordon
May 22, 20194 min read
The Future of Design: Where's the Heat?
A close friend of mine, Satoshi Ohashi, was the visionary architect Zaha Hadid’s employee number 4, back when her office occupied only...
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kgordon
May 22, 20194 min read
The Social Contract
In the now third trimester of my life outside the womb, I’m realizing that the best moments of that life have been happenstance, and as a...
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kgordon
May 22, 20193 min read
Bespoke
A “friend” of mine, Sara, is a bartender in a neighborhood Atlanta restaurant. She is a parenthetical “friend” because she pretends to...
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kgordon
May 21, 20195 min read
Saint Kevin
I’m assuming that most all of the three letter architectural firms, TVS, SOM, HKS, etc. require each employee to submit to, and submit,...
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kgordon
May 21, 20193 min read
Funny Business
Truth be told, I’m the world’s leading expert on humor in Architecture. It is a club of one, of which I am president, scribe and...
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kgordon
May 21, 20194 min read
Truth Machine
Truth be told, I’m a liar. Although not one of the seven deadly sins, lying is a deal breaker in the Boy Scout code of ethics. A Scout is...
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