Anna Pendergrast

3 weeks ago | archinect.com | Nam Henderson |Anna Pendergrast |Kelly Pendergrast

Sean Joyner published his first feature since 2022, titled On Becoming a Professional: Letter to an Architecture Student. In it he writes "If there is anything I can say about becoming a professional, it is that it has less to do with status or mastery than with how one chooses to move through difficulty. It’s about how you show up when things are unclear. How you carry responsibility without fanfare.

Apr 1, 2024 | scopeofwork.net | Anna Pendergrast |Kelly Pendergrast

In common parlance, a white elephant is an unwanted possession that is burdensome and often costly to maintain. The phrase traces back to the rare and prestigious white elephants kept by monarchs in Southeast Asia. In the apocryphal tale that birthed the phrase, the king of Siam (modern-day Thailand) would gift a white elephant to a courtier who displeased him.

Jul 10, 2023 | scopeofwork.net | Anna Pendergrast |Kelly Pendergrast

In his 1975 memoir The Periodic Table, Primo Levi recounts a brief anecdote about a mysterious slice of onion in a recipe for oil varnish. Levi, an Italian-Jewish writer, chemist, Holocaust survivor, and anti-Fascist, was working in a paint factory after the war. He came across a varnish formula, published in 1942, that included two slices of onion added to the boiling linseed oil near the end of the process. Why onion?

Jun 11, 2023 | thespinoff.co.nz | Anna Pendergrast

In San Francisco, ‘autonomous vehicle’ cabs can be hailed via an app as you would an Uber or Zoomy. A visiting Wellingtonian tests it out – and is in no hurry to repeat the experience. Every couple of years I travel to San Francisco to see my sister, Kelly. While I’m there I always try to make the most of the Bay Area’s reputation as the “home of big tech” and seek out experiences and services that are delivered by robots or otherwise futuristic.