Architects and Artisans

Haskell Harris, associate editor at Garden & Gun, fervently believes that we’re caught up in the middle of a resurgent new Craftsman Movement. Her “Made in the South” section – from the soulful, Charleston-based magazine that delivers new meaning to the phrase “up-and-coming” – is striving now to prove her point. She’s launched a contest [...]

John Covert Watson is an architect who works today under the umbrella of Biostructures, Inc. in Austin, Texas. His philosophy, though, is firmly rooted in the concept of organic architecture, as taught by its first practitioner. He was apprenticed to the Taliesin fellowship during the latter years of Frank Lloyd Wright’s life. He worked with [...]

Forty-two-year-old designer Lara Moore started out in 1997 with a business plan and a line of credit. She was determined to make art out of tissue paper and resin – and to succeed. What’s she’s built since then is an design-driven business in a 10,000-square-foot studio with five employees. It’s dedicated to producing made-to-order, functional [...]

Savannah artist Ellen Susan wants us to see the military as something other than an abstraction in the news media. To get us there, she draws from photographic technology as old as the Civil War. Her haunting, compelling portraits of today’s soldiers are currently on exhibit at the Moshe Safdie–designed Telfair Museum in Savannah. They [...]

Mark Richard Smith’s award-winning film on American architect Louis Sullivan will be shown twice in Miami Beach during the AIA 2010 National Convention this week. “Louis Sullivan: the Struggle for American Architecture,” recognized at the Kansas City Filmfest in April as Best Documentary Film, will be shown at 11:00 AM and 1:30 PM on Thursday, [...]

Siddarth Parasnis is a native of India who lives, paints and teaches in San Francisco. A graduate of the Academy of Art University there, he began displaying his work in galleries right after graduation. He’s now being shown in four of the nation’s finest: Dolby Chadwick in San Francisco, Sue Greenwood Gallery in Laguna Beach, [...]

Jamming five events into 48 hours, Miami architect, editor and academic Allan Shulman is touting the schedule of a rock star for the AIA 2010 National Convention and Design Exposition in South Florida. On Thursday, June 10 at 7:00 AM, the editor of Miami Modern Metropolis will be giving a talk on “Miami Beach and [...]

In the late 1880s, as George Vanderbilt was amassing nearly 228 square miles of land in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina, he turned to Frederick Law Olmsted for counsel on what should be done with it. It was not in the best condition. He’d purchased about six hundred lots that varied in size from [...]

Parker Andes and Suzanne Woodell deal on a daily basis with the colliding issues of time and speed and space at Biltmore Estate near Asheville, N.C. They are, respectively, director of horticulture and historic gardens manager for thousands of acres on the property. They’ve recently been charged with restoring Horse Ford Pond on the Ram [...]

A new exhibit at Antler Hill Village on the grounds of Biltmore Estate near Asheville, N.C. examines a legacy in drawings and photos from three of the brighter lights of late 19th century design. The collaborative efforts in the Carolina mountains by Frederick Law Olmsted, Richard Morris Hunt and George Vanderbilt left behind more than [...]