by Peter Mitsakos | Jan 3, 2021 | Blog, Featured
Pablo Picasso is credited with the quote “Art is the lie that tells the truth”. This has its corollary in architecture: there is a difference between expression (the “lie”) and function (the “truth”). Architecture is the expression of the thing, not the thing itself. Even the famous credo, “Form Follows Function” was really only a call to arms to make function the expression.
by Peter Mitsakos | Dec 18, 2020 | Blog, Featured
Recently I saw an article discussing some excellent architectural work by a few promising architectural practices with the complementary descriptor of the work as “Frozen Music”. I have heard this same term attached to Disney Hall, a way of thinking about the design I...
by Peter Mitsakos | Dec 13, 2020 | Blog
In a telephone conversation recently I was asked if, after the pandemic is over and things return back to normal, what will normal look like? This is after I just confessed that while I have been the only one coming into the office (everyone else is working remotely)...
by WEA | Mar 28, 2017 | Blog
It is quite common to see the descriptor “creative” attached to advertisements aimed at leasing office space. The title, once reserved for artsy renovations of older, usually industrial buildings, is now ubiquitous and equally likely to be found describing...
by Peter Mitsakos | Mar 8, 2017 | Blog
It is tempting to think of the value of your business as residing in the different components or departments represented on your company’s organizational chart. To be sure, the specific functions, operations and the skilled people you have filling important roles are...
by Peter Mitsakos | Oct 14, 2016 | Blog
I recently attended an extraordinary conference aimed at examining environmental concerns and cultural issues as they manifest themselves in the open spaces we make, whether they are in the most urban parts of our cities, at the interface of developed and wild space, or in the newly open spaces created by shrinking cities and the abandoned building sites that result.
