Archive by Year
2025
Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Asher Benjamin explains how to make stucco
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
The Carpenter Square and the Compass - The Evolution of Practical Geometry
Friday, Februart 21, 2025
William Pain's 'The Practical Builder' and Lavius Fillmore
Friday, January 24, 2025
James Gibbs and the Rockingham Meeting House
2024
Saturday, December 14, 2024
James Gibbs' Rules for Drawing the several Parts of Architecture
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
The Perfect Cube and its Sphere
Saturday, May 25, 2024
A Daisy wheel is a Module
Saturday, February 17, 2024
"Keep Within the Compass", Cautionary Prints, c. 1785
2023
Monday, November 20, 2023
The Practical Geometry of the Parson Barnard House: the Bents
Tuesday, November 7, 2023
The Practical Geometry of the Parson Barnard House
Tuesday, October 3, 2023
Teaching Practical Geometry
Wednesday, June 7, 2023
That daisy wheel you found? Please trace it for me.
Saturday, April 1, 2023
Serlio Studies a Roman Temple
Thursday, February 2, 2023
Practical Geometry at Mud University, Cambridge, NY, March 3-4
Thursday, January 19, 2023
A Lancaster Clock Case: its geometric design
Tuesday, January 10, 2023
Geometry in Construction = Practical Geometry
2022
Tuesday, November 29, 2022
Virginia Folk Housing, Part 2 of an update
Tuesday, November 14, 2022
Virginia Folk Housing, Part 1 an update
Wednesday, October 5, 2022
Serlio's Lines
Monday, September 26, 2022
The Geometry of Ionic volutes
Wednesday, July 27, 2022
The Baptist Church of Streetsboro, Ohio, Part 1
Wednesday, July 26, 2022
The Baptist Church of Streetsboro, Ohio, Part 2
Sunday, June 19, 2022
James Gibbs' Of Architecture, Draughts for a Menagery, Part 2 of 2
Thursday, April 21, 2022
The Parson Capen House, 1683, Topsfield, MA
Tuesday, April 19, 2022
The geometrical design of Harmondsworth Great Barn, Laurie Smith
Friday, April 1, 2022
Images from my talk on the Historic Practice of Practical Geometry , April 7, 2022
Wednesday, March 30, 2022
A Bibliography for my Traditional Building Conference presentation, April 7, 2022.
Friday, February 25,2022
James Gibbs' steeples
2021
Sunday, December 12, 2021
James Gibbs' Of Architecture, Draughts for a Menagery,
Part 1 of 2
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
The Old First Church Windows in the Lantern
Wednesday, November 16, 2021
Bibliography for Practical Geometry, aka Architectural Geometry
2020
Friday, November 13, 2020
ARCHITECTURAL GEOMETRY, A Rare Geometrical Record from Rural Devon, by Laurie Smith
2019
Sunday, December 29, 2019
Practical Geometry - Drawing a Square with a Compass, Part 1
2018
Sunday, December 29, 2018
Framing a Barn with Practical Geometry in 1791
2017
Tuesday, November 21, 2017
The Tuckahoe Cabin Geometry
2016
Saturday, December 17, 2016
St Jerome Catholic Church, East Dorset, Vermont
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Passing By
A column on vernacular architecture in the Bennington, Vermont area, published monthly in The Bennington Banner, from July 2013 to the present.
Sunday Drives
Archive of a bi-weekly newspaper column on vernacular architecture, written for the Lawrence, MA Eagle-Tribune, from 1988-1999. In 1994, the column received a Massachusetts Historic Preservation Award.
The Old First Church
Windows in the Lantern
What was the geometry?
