No. 8 | Speed Kills
In the May edition of The Santa Fe New Mexican’s Home Magazine, I talk about the importance of choosing the right design criteria for the design and planning of our road infrastructure. Urban Sense. Read the Article: I love …
No. 7 | Choose adobe
In the March edition of The Santa Fe New Mexican’s Home Magazine, I talk about my thoughts about adobe, and why I think you should choose adobe. Urban Sense. Read the Article: It is no secret that there are …
No. 6 | Where will the housing go?
In the February edition of The Santa Fe New Mexican’s Home Magazine, I talk about the housing situation in Santa Fe. Urban Sense. Read the Article: The suburban model is hitting its limit. Infill development is occurring in the …
No. 5 | Urban Sense: Stability in context, setting
In the January edition of The Santa Fe New Mexican’s Home Magazine, I talk about change and how it impacts the world around us. Urban Sense. Read the Article: I have been driving the same road for 30 years, …
No. 4 | Urban Sense: A New Old Santa Fe Style
In the December edition of The Santa Fe New Mexican’s Home Magazine, I talk about the New Old Santa Fe Style, its history, and its future in my column Urban Sense. Read the Article: Old Santa Fe Style is …
No. 3 | Urban Sense: About those windows…
In the October edition of The Santa Fe New Mexican’s Home Magazine, I talk about the benefits and value of repairing older wood windows vs. replacing them with new windows, in my column Urban Sense. Read the Article: Older …
No. 2 | Urban Sense: Let’s reorient to compact living
In the September edition of The Santa Fe New Mexican’s Home Magazine, I discuss pros and cons of compact living in my column Urban Sense. Read the Article: Urban Design transforms our lives street by street, subdivision by subdivision, …
Urban Sense—My New Monthly Column for The Santa Fe New Mexican
With excitement, I introduce to you my new monthly column for The Santa Fe New Mexican called “Urban Sense“. Look for it in the Home magazine on page 18. I will be discussing issues relating to Historic Preservation, Urban Design …
Miracle of the Loretto Staircase — How Would it be Built Today?
Photo credit: Louis Sánchez Saturno/The New Mexican Gayla was invited to co-lead a staircase design and engineering symposium with Manufacturers Association President Steven Guenzel and Erik Farrington, associate principal with the architectural firm Simpson, Gumpertz & Heger, Inc., for the …
Introducing The Rabbit Bend Cabin
I like to think that all creatives have a handful of projects that we tend to keep a little closer to our hearts, for whatever reason. The Rabbit Bend Cabin is one of mine. This is a special project for …