American Urbanism

11/03/2025

Small commercial spaces incrementally added into the urban fabric.

06/03/2025

There is something elegant with this building. Despite the rest of the block being converted to parking lots, this beautiful building remains.

11/11/2023

01/20/2023

Located north of the town of Purcellville in Loudoun County, the Amos Goodin House was constructed around 1810. The house is locally important as an excellent example of the “Loudoun Stuga” (stuga means “cabin”), a local vernacular adaptation of the Swedish Mora Stuga design. The Swedish house form was brought to Loudoun from Pennsylvania by Quakers, Germans, and Scots-Irish who adapted it in settling in the area. In this way, the Amos Goodin House embodies a transitional era of architecture for the region, and exhibits a building style and plan commonly used for a number of years in the late 1700s and early 1800s in Loudoun. The house features centrally placed hall doors in a single room, two fireplaces on each end of the structure, and twister stairs. Its functional architecture showcases the use of fieldstone that is coursed up like drywall, with interstices “pointed up” with lime to keep out the weather. The Loudoun Stuga house form was practical for frontier life and was reproduced with an economy of skill. The Amos Goodin House and secondary buildings on the property reveal the evolution of local, rustic home design, with use of traditional tools and methods of construction.

Learn more below: https://www.dhr.virginia.gov/historic-registers/053-0468/

08/31/2022

Beautiful

08/08/2022

I am off onto another adventure in my restless pursuit of urbanism. Over the next three days, I will be attending the City Building Exchange in New Orleans. This 3 day immersive conference connects local government with leading practitioners. The list and personal portfolios of each of these speakers is really quite amazing which will balance my attention between the content and the place....

I am off onto another adventure in my restless pursuit of urbanism. Over the next three days, I will be attending the City Building Exchange in New Orleans. This 3 day immersive conference connects local government with leading practitioners. The list and personal portfolios of each of these speaker...

05/05/2022

Streets and roads have two very different purposes. Here's how to take the stroad (i.e. street-road hybrid and financial/social disaster) and turn it into either a productive street or an efficient road.

05/03/2022

04/15/2022

04/10/2022