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	<title>Ratio Architects &#187; Mara Braspenninx</title>
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	<description>Defining Spaces. Creating Places. Enhancing Community</description>
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		<title>CSI: Preservation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mara Braspenninx</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The scene opens…a dark dusty room with shag carpeting on the floor, layers of peeling wallpaper on the walls, suspended acoustical tile ceiling above…the crime? A bad 1970’s renovation of an historic structure (imagine horror movie music here). It seems that crime scene investigation shows are on almost every channel lately. While uncovering a historic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Batteries Not Included</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:25:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mara Braspenninx</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend I stumbled across the movie *batteries not included on TV. I haven’t seen this movie since I was a kid, but I remembered it had something to do with robots and that I had liked it.
Well, imagine my surprise to discover that the movie has preservation issues at its core. A large [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Go Googie or Go Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:33:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mara Braspenninx</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[What do the famous Las Vegas sign, the cartoon Jetsons family, Seattle’s space needle and Disney’s Pixar movie “Cars” have in common? They’re all examples of Googie architecture.

No, it’s not architecture for babies – it’s an architectural style that almost everyone is familiar with, but may not know the depth behind this retro-futuristic style.
The Googie [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Books to Inspire Young Designers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mara Braspenninx</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Antoinette Portis; Mo Willems; Roberto the Insect Architect; The Little House; David Macaulay; The Wright 3]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Children's Architecture Books; The Urban Babies Series; The Petit Connoisseur Books; Andy Warhol's Colors; Dr. Seuss' Many Colored Days; Michael J. Crosbie]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Now that the holiday shopping season is officially open, I’ve started thinking again about great children&#8217;s books to give as gifts.  There are so many out there to help instill an appreciation for art, architecture, design and planning, and that are intelligent enough that adults don’t usually mind reading them over and over again (in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preservation of Another Kind</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mara Braspenninx</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Historic Preservation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Canning]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Historic Detail Replication]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Making Jam]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The leaves are falling, and it’s the time of year when you start wishing you could bottle everything about the waning days of warmer weather – the sunshine, the warm air, the juicy sweet fruit…well I don’t know how to save the sunshine but the fruit I have in the bag, or rather in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attention Silver Screen Architects: The Profession Isn&#8217;t That Pretty</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mara Braspenninx</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Historic Preservation]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[One Fine Day]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Sleepless in Seattle]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Something About Mary]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So many people I meet, when I tell them I work for an architecture firm, respond with “I always wanted to do that!” I always think to myself, “You have no idea what it really means to be an architect.”
Don’t get me wrong, I love my job – just not for the same reasons I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Place Matters</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 19:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mara Braspenninx</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[National Preservation Month]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Spring is here, and so is National Preservation Month. Check out events that are happening in your area. At the top of my list are the Michigan Historic Preservation Conference in my home town of Grand Rapids, MI and the Mid-century Modern Home Tour in West Lafayette, IN. Drop me a line if you&#8217;ll be there too [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Window by any Other Name&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mara Braspenninx</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Historic Preservation]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[building features]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[fenestration]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[window placement]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As with any profession, Architecture has a specialized vocabulary that is a bit esoteric, especially when discussing historic buildings. We use words like façade, volutes and eaves, words that are useful only to architects and crossword puzzle enthusiasts. One of my favorites is fenestration. It is obscure, unusual, and it sounds a little dirty.

Often when [...]]]></description>
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