10.1.07 | How many of us enjoy the morning? I, for one, am certainly not a morning person. I need a long runway to get airborne, so to speak. But there are some things that make waking up easy. For me, the prospect of a powdery winter’s day on my snowboard has me jumping out of bed, as does the prospect of getting on a plane to an unfamiliar place. The unique, the exhilarating, the long-awaited. Another good example of that was the 2007 IIDA Leader’s Breakfast in San Francisco. Thursday, September 13^th was a pretty easy morning, certainly made easier by the prospect of a four-star breakfast.

1.22.07 | NELSON is a name that grabbed our attention last year when it merged with GHK, Chicago, a noted interior design firm headed by the estimable Mitchell Cohen. That expansion, as we discovered, was but one of a series of acquisitions and amalgamations that signaled a new stage in the life of what appears to be an increasingly prominent firm in the built environment. From a firm with $9 million in revenues in 1990, NELSON has grown to a firm which, today, has revenues in excess of $50 million with over 500 professionals (who they call 'teammates') in 34 offices.

11.13.06 | Participatory democracy is not something that all in the U.S. cultivate. In fact, the civic duty that vitalized the ancient Greek and Roman civilizations has come to have a somewhat unattractive taste for many since the grossly inequitable operation of the military draft during the Vietnam War and the increasingly self-serving, or party-centric maneuverings of politicians since then (not to suggest statesman-like behavior was the rule before then).