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A Sketch du Jour – my New Year’s Resolution

On January 1, 2021 - New Year’s Day - I sat at my dining room table looking at the roses David had bought me for my birthday in November, and...

The Responsibility of Architecture

Recently I had the pleasure of participating in my first ever podcast. Sam Aquillano, Executive Director of Design Museum Everywhere asked me to be the guest co-host with him to...

Racial Bias in Photography

Kodak introduced the Kodachrome in 1935. This was a breakthrough in photographic technology at the time and brought color photography to the masses. Color photography had begun in the 1850s,...

MassRobotics – We Bring Robotics to Life

What is most exciting for us at STA is working with people and organizations like MassRobotics,  who are making such immense contributions to the world through innovation.  MassRobotics is an...

Bodega Makeover – Designing For a Healthy Community

Designing for community impact is an ever-present mission of STA, so when an opportunity to collaborate with Evelyn Brito of Bodega Makeover was presented to us from the Boston Society of Architects,...

25 Years…. And Counting!

They say “time flies when you’re having fun”, and that’s certainly the case as I marvel at the 25th anniversary of Silverman Trykowski Associates!  It’s hard to believe, but on...

Get to know Bobby Main

What’s one thing most people don’t know about you? I spent 5 incredible summers working at a Boy Scout overnight summer camp where I held a wide variety of odd-jobs...

Reflections on One Year of COVID

Hello, Gazette readers! Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Bobby, an architect and the newest member of the STA team. As we reached the one-year mark of the...

How are Things Better?

In general, I’ve always been a “glass is half full” kind of guy. These COVID-19 times are certainly testing that and I’ve been reflective lately about how the changes of...

The Speed of Change

As we come upon a year of working from home, I’ve been reflecting on what was happening just before that pivotal day of March 17.  That’s the date that I...