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Architectural forum moderator and mushroom enthusiast
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In 2008, he redesigned the load-path documentation for the Portland State University Living Building Challenge project—not with renderings, but with hand-sketched fungal hyphal networks overlaid on steel moment frames, arguing that mycelial distribution patterns revealed more about distributed stress than conventional shear diagrams ever could. That sketch became an unofficial appendix in three architecture school syllabi and sparked a decade-long thread on the forum titled 'When the Bracket Doesn’t Lie—but the Spore Does.' He still moderates that thread, pruning tangents about concrete creep while slipping field notes on late-summer oyster flushes in the Columbia Gorge. His beam corrections are famously precise down to the thousandth of a kip-foot; his foraging advice includes GPS waypoints, substrate pH readings, and warnings about confusing Armillaria with edible Pleurotus—because, as he says, 'A miscalculated moment can collapse a balcony. A misidentified mushroom collapses your liver.'
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