DANIEL HOUSE

Sometimes when people talk to me about architecture, they think I am stuck in the past. “Why are you against progress?” they ask. “Doesn’...

Of all the goddess sculptures, The Winged Victory of Samothrace might fill in the most blanks for our mind's eye. We can see this celesti...

Most of the time, I don't realize that I see the world with different eyes than those around me. I usually just assume this is the way ev...

I think I was maybe 13 or 14 when I saw a commercial on the Travel Channel advertising an upcoming show that went underground Portland to...

The greatness of the city of Oxford certainly emanates from the university, but that greatness would be harder to see if the university w...

Oxford is just about the best man-made place on Earth. It's really, really old, and yet there are concepts within its urban layout that p...

I have never been great at relaxing. I am told it is a thing people do instead of working, but typically I find the whole concept stressf...

I have spent most of my life traveling. I grew up traveling with my dad when he was a diplomat in Europe and then on his subsequent lectu...

Newport is a great city. I used to think it embodied the idea of America better than any other city. However, after spending a few years ...

It was time to get some actual work done. I had an article due at the end of the week, and it was one I was looking forward to writing. I...

It was around 1 am when the guys finally wandered off to bed. I wasn't tired and I had plenty of work to do, so I grabbed my bag and head...

I arose early the next morning to the blast of a fog horn. Peeling back the curtain next to my bed, I rubbed my eyes until a small, ricke...

“Wait, what are you doing here?” I said with mild indignation. I sat up, rubbed my eyes open and snatched my glass back as he brought it ...

I entered Halcy-on-Top and a familiarity set over me. We spent so many weekends here over the years. This house knew us as we were: young...

I have a tendency to wallow in my sullenness. Which is why it was no surprise that I didn’t stop starring through the ring of that sculpt...

Millie walked through the guild doors at quarter past ten. She was beautiful as ever. She’s that sort of beauty you know requires no effo...

My eyes darted around the room searching for something to steal my focus. My mind had been racing ever since I left Benedict’s house this...