Creating Facades to Be Proud Of

Reading a recent note about coffee, I wondered—what do those who don’t drink coffee do?

Interestingly, Frank Lloyd Wright practiced polyphasic sleep—short periods of rest every three to four hours instead of a long night’s sleep.

Luis Barragán would order entirely pink lunches—for example, half a melon with sherry. Makes sense! As one of the most vibrant Mexican architects, Barragán used tropical colors in his works. And if you design pink walls, you should eat in matching tones too.

I. M. Pei loved lying in bed in the dark—it was there that his most productive, dream-like ideas came to him. As he got older, he switched entirely to a “paper-free” approach to design. Imagine—a designer who doesn’t draw! read more→