Source : Shades of Grey blog

BEAM OF LIGHT

Is AI good or bad? Do lock-downs work? Have we forgotten how to do nuanced risk-benefit analysis...

BYZANTINE COLUMN

 Byzantine columns are interesting.  There is some kind of relationship to the classical...

MOVING EAST

   I bought another book on Kindle.  I’ve been spending time on Greek and Roman...

COMPARE AND CONTRAST

 Apples and Oranges, Chalk and Cheese.  Vincent Scully and Bannister Fletcher had very...

RING OF FIRE

“Love is a burning thing, and it makes a fiery ring” and so we fall into the Temple of Vesta as the...

ROMANIC NOVELTY

 Roman, romantic, Romanesque.  Words have a history. Meanings twist and turn, perform...

PAX ROMANUM

 Take the ruthless purism of a Greek temple and dial it back a notch. Now you have the...

PEDI-MENTAL GYMNASTICS

 I’m going to come back to the Pantheon family, but for that I will need an “all-purpose...

HOUSING THE GODS

 Exploring history is analogous to design work.  You need to work at different levels...