Six Thousand Six Hundred and Fifty Screws
"The building art is, in reality, always the spatial execution of spiritual decisions. It is bound to its times and manifests itself only in addressing vital tasks with the means of its times. A knowledge of the times, its tasks, and its means is the necessary precondition of work in the building art." - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Mies, a former Chicagoan like myself, knew a thing or two about building. My knowledge of the times was that the Banyan Inn needed a kick-ass pool deck, stat. The task of said deck is to provide maximum entertainment for our guests. The means to accomplish this deck were (1) me, (2) my tools, and (3) moving 20,000 pounds of lumber. I was going to engage in the building art. I was going to make Mies proud. In addition, a s some of you know, decks are kind of my thing. Having built a deck or two, I consider myself an at least average deck builder, with the occasional lapse into a good deck builder. The bottom line is I...