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Aaron writes the men’s style column “The Pocket Square” for the San Francisco Chronicle and has written for the New York Times, the Times Magazine, Newsweek, National Geographic and others.

Bird Calls from Sweet Bella
The design world, like Tippi Hedren, pecked on all sides, has fallen prey to the birds.
Seth Boor
For our latest installment of Three Buildings, in which we ask members of the design community to share three of their favorite...
Classic Stories Get Slick Redesign
On my last couple trips to the bookstore I've been taken with a new series of six paperbacks which have positively leapt out at...
Cecilia Tham
For part three of our new series Three Buildings, we spoke with Cecilia Tham of Habitan Architects in Barcelona.
Christian Dean
For the second installment in our new series Three Buildings, we spoke with Christian Dean, one of the three principals of the...
Aaron Britt
We’re starting a new series on dwell.com this week called Three Buildings.
Waverly Lowell on Greenwood Common
Last week I posted about three new books from William Stout Publishers, one of which is Living Modern: A Biography of Greenwood...
Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott
On a recent weekend, whilst both sitting on a train and lolling by the river, I read the short, strange novel Flatland by Edwin...
Ardor for Ada
When putting together a room, it's easy to lapse into the "Everything-must-be-a-showpiece" mentality, and though that can...
First Lady at National Design Awards
Dwell was proud to be named a finalist this year for the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards in the category of Corporate...
Hoagies’ Heroes
Best friends since middle school, Casey Patten and David Mazza have a passion for their up-and-coming slice of Washington, DC,...
In Memoriam: Julius Shulman
We here at the Dwell offices were all saddened to learn that architectural photographer Julius Shulman passed away last night at...
New Trio from Stout Publishers
One of the joys of coming in to Dwell every morning is passing by William Stout Architectural Books, maybe the best design...
Dwell's Embassy Walking Tour
In May I led a walking tour of Washington DC's modern embassies.
Panel Interview: America's Embassies
Yesterday I posted a short interview I did with Philip Kennicott, culture critic with the Washington Post, after my embassy...
Philip Kennicott on America's Embassies
Just today the American Institute of Architects' 21st Century Embassy Task Force issued a 40-page report with 59 guidelines and...
Q & A with Jeremy Levine
Jeremy Levine, whose house is featured in the current issue of Dwell, took to my little Q and A with gusto, musing on physics,...
Thank You Cards by Linda and Harriett
Getting a thank you card in the mail, especially after having hosted a party or given a present, is a rarity today.
Interview with Chris Puzio
Metalworker, builder and gallerist Christopher Puzio will be speaking at Dwell on Design this year on the My House panel I'm...
A Northern Haven
North Haven, a rocky island in Maine’s Penobscot Bay, is quintessentially New England.
Chatting with Mick Hodgson
I met graphic designer Mick Hodgson of Santa Monica design office Ph.D at a party in San Francisco some months back.
Eight Questions for Brad Cloepfil
Brad Cloepfil of Allied Works Architecture of Portland, Oregon, has become the go-to man for museum design these days.
The Architecture of Reassurance
Though I’m moderating loads of panels at this year’s Dwell on Design, and anticipating them all quite hotly, one that stands out...
Re:Vision Dallas Winners
With plans to turn a massive downtown Dallas parking lot into an exemplar of green design, Re:Vision Dallas announced last week...
Creating the Modern Stage
While in New York last week I made a stop into the Morgan Library to see the new show Creating the Modern Stage: Designs for...
Defining Good Design at Bulthaup
I'll be down in Los Angeles on Thursday to speak at the bulthaup showroom and wanted to alert all our Southern California readers...
FLW: From Within Outward
Earlier this week I visited a new exhibit at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the recently-opened Frank Lloyd Wright: From...
Fjord Focus
As Jarmund/Vigsnæs’s growing crop of small, smart houses have garnered increasing attention, their equally prolific civic works...
Architectural Trespassing
I alluded to it in an earlier post on my trip to Switzerland, but one of the highlights of the whole affair was an impromptu stop...
Geigy's Stellar Graphic Design
I alluded to it in an earlier post, but one of the highlights of my first day in Zurich was a tour through the exhibit Good...
Dwell Conversations in DC Tonight!
Tonight I’ll be hosting the next Dwell Conversation, Designing Diplomacy, a panel discussion on the intersection of design and...
Touring Switzerland: Final Day
Waking up, despite the early hour, was a joy in sunny Lausanne.
Touring Switzerland: Day 4
The morning weather in Madiswil at the Hotel Baeren was gloomy at best.
Touring Switzerland: Day 3
Things commenced this morning under the gray skies again, though this time, instead of nattering about Zurich, we were off to the...
Touring Switzerland: Day 2
The sunny weather we enjoyed yesterday has evaporated, and once-sunny Zurich is rainy and gray.
Touring Switzerland: Day 1
I got into Zurich around 9:00 AM on Sunday, rather wiped out from my flight from San Francisco via Newark.
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