D.C. Mayor Bowser's gesture and the artwork of Christo & Jean Claude: Art is a powerful way to convey a social message.

I'm a new neutral monochrome believer, and I feel good about it. But sometimes I consider converting to a color saturated mode.

"A sloping roof, a tall chimney and large windows remind one of a child’s drawing" Herzog & de Meuron (1997) on Rudin house.

Rules are mostly made to be broken, and are too often for the lazy to hide behind" said General of Army Douglass MacArthur.

Neutral monochrome. It's the antithesis of color, the purest version of minimalism with its very strict scale of earthy tones.

It seems like color can no longer be applied spontaneously into a design, instead it has to be controlled and obsessively organized.

It's hard to live at peace with the ever going conflict between a flawless designed space, and a real lived-in space.