#389 - I Want To See Tears

Archispeak by Evan Troxel, Cormac Phalen

May 1, 202635:46Arts

A van conversion project that was supposed to take three days is now four months in and an eighth of the way done. Evan and Cormac dig into what actually happened and why an architect's brain might be the single biggest...

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