Architect Eileen Gray made an astute observation on creating new architecture, “To create, one must first question everything.” This is also true in academia, as questions drive our exploration of…

Let’s do a quick experiment! Since you are probably looking at this blog on an internet browser of some kind, you can follow along at home. If you look to…

The more complicated an object, the more likely you need specialized training to understand every facet and function of the parts within. Automobiles provide a good example. Most people either…

In writing these blogs I start my outlines with dictionary definitions. Through the simple and economical language, the concepts we discuss in these blogs gain clarity. This clarity allows me…

“Fake it ‘til you make it!” This mantra follows many students as they enter tertiary education. This mantra, alongside other misconceptions developed in secondary school, provides poor groundwork for continuing…

If stopped on the street and asked for the opposite of success, many passers-by would respond with “failure.” This makes sense, these terms describe the two opposing ideas in a…

Dame Zaha Hadid, DBE, expressed an interesting observation of her fellow architects and their habits: “When you are overworked and exhausted, there is a sense of kind of delirium and…