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I started Leslie Saul & Associates on December 21, 1992, almost 25 years ago. I had been a principal in a large architecture firm, where I led the interiors/interior architecture group. I felt as if my job was to keep the senior folks happy and I missed the direct connection to the everyday work of …
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WHY WE ARE NIMBLE AND AGILE – AND WE’RE NOT TALKING ABOUT GYMNASTICS
If you have read any of my posts, you are probably sick of hearing about our five practice areas: providing architecture and interiors for people who work, play, age, live and learn. Recently, I’ve been wondering what the benefits are to our clients and to our staff. The obvious benefit to our staff is that …
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What is your reaction when you hear the word “homework”? Do you cringe? Get worried? Or maybe you think homework is the best way to reinforce a new lesson (are you a teacher…?). I certainly have my opinions about homework for kindergarten and first grade – really? Can’t our 5 and 6 years olds come …
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Residential and commercial design doesn’t stop at the exterior walls. It continues (or should continue) through your landscape design, which includes fences or property boundaries. Make sure your fences enhance, rather than detract from, your overall design. Use Fence Styles That Complement Your Architectural Design When you’re ready to design – or replace – your …
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Art and Politics: Part 2 The Williamstown Theatre Festival brings Broadway and television actors to Western Massachusetts for a working vacation away from the city. We saw an ambiguous, humorous, and marvelously acted two- person play about date rape, and a lovely musical about movie-making, love and resistance against the McCarthy witch hunt for Communists …
Williamstown, MA in mid-August provided the perfect weekend for my husband and me: golf in the morning, museum in the afternoon, and theatre in the evening. There are many fancy museums being built. As an architect, I know that they are very sought-after projects. However, the transformation of these huge and ordinary mill buildings into …
Eclectic design has been around since the 18 th and 19 th century when the China Trade introduced Chinese porcelains to early Colonial America. It was popular again in the late 1960’s when affordable long-distance jet travel enabled people to bring artifacts to the U.S. from all over the world. It is still favored by …
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One of the greatest gifts of this firm has been the opportunity to collaborate with other architects, some famous (BCJ, Gund Partnership, e.g.) and some not so famous (Handlin, Garrahan and Associates, William Sloan Associates, e.g.). Fame is funny. Since the famous have a national and local reputation for high design, these firms have their …
COLOR EXPLOSIONS IN 1967, AND A SPECIAL OFFER FROM LESLIE SAUL & ASSOCIATES 50 YEARS LATER
It has been gratifying to see the response that we have gotten for my post about meeting Janis Joplin in 1967. So, I suppose that it shouldn’t surprise me that the Boston Globe has begun a series of stories on the summer of ’67. Read “Summer of Love” by Marni Elyse Katz, in the July 28, 2017 …
When I was in college at RISD, I spent summer at “home” in Cincinnati, working for the City’s Planning Department. I worked on a hillside study examining the slope of the seven hills, did some of the work on planning a park along the river, and worked extensively on what was then (1970’s) the New …