When there’s a post to Trenches, watch out. Lenedra Carroll in The Architecture of All Abundance writes,

“He is wise who sees action in inaction and inaction in action,” the dream voice [an owl’s] had said.

and

Remember that you are an artist.
Know that you are more than the things that happen to you.
Always make space for magic to happen.

If an architect makes space, and anybody can be an architect, Carroll is a good, intuitive place to start. Now on to professionalism, even when it’s at the earliest stages.

Olympic Stadium concept. For whatever reason, the local museum looks more like a box.

Merriam-Webster defines gnomon as the pin of sundial. A tall building such as the TransAmerica Pyramid can serve this purpose, provided there is a marker of some kind on the ground indicating the shadow measurement at a specific time of day. If the shadow aligns with the marker, the time of day should match the previous time of day when the marker was set. Because the TransAmerica Pyramid is so tall, the behavior of the “instrument” is particularly dynamic compared to an ordinary sundial from the vantage of the observer. All bets are off in foggy weather and during an earthquake.

ΓΝΩΜΩΝ. A page in French on the web says Thales measured the height of the Great Pyramid at Giza by comparing shadows at the same time of day.

Consider a pyramid, height h unknown. However the length of its shadow, l, is known for a certain time of day, as is the shadow l’ and height, h’ of a reference such as a 6’ man.

h   h'

- = --

l   l'



    h'l

h = ---

     l'

Example: l = 962’, h’ = 6’ and l’ = 12’. Solving for h = 481’ = 6 x 962 / 12.

At an opening in Berkeley, C., a plein-air painter, says they rebuild "to the lot line" in the Oakland Hills. No manners. Of course he means to the setback, as reference shows the possibility of good manners to the lot line.