Most buyers fall for a house's present. A Haddonfield architect explains how to read a property's true potential — additions, renovations, a future forever home — before you make an offer.

A trip through Scotland and England’s Lake District becomes more than a vacation. From The Struggle near Ambleside to wooden boats, motorcycles, cars, surfing, architecture, and ice cream, this personal field note reflects on family, craft, memory, and the way design thinking follows us everywhere.

Renovating a 100-year-old home is an act of stewardship. The architect’s role is to understand what should change, what should remain, and how new work can support modern living without diminishing the character, craftsmanship, and neighborhood presence that made the house special.

On structural integrity, material truth, and the Gwyneth Paltrow effect.

On orientation, intention, and why the post-pandemic porch boom was never really about porches