Architects and Artisans

Meg Jewett is no ordinary purveyor of fine goods for home and table. No, she’s a native of Lexington, Kentucky who lives there at Walnut Hall, her family’s circa 1830′s home.   It’s located next door to the Kentucky Horse Park, which was once part of the family farm.  And she’s the owner of L.V. Harkness & Company, a retail [...]

Architecture, art and design firms seeking to share news and events with clients, potential clients, peers and the media now have a new and effective communication tool at their fingertips: www.architectsandartisans.com. The web magazine, dedicated since its founding in early 2010 to “thoughtful design for a sustainable world,” will begin offering immediate news release posting [...]

Perhaps no artist symbolizes the 19th-century transition from traditional to avant-garde as much as Edouard Manet. And The Birth of Impressionism, now on exhibit at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, makes a strong case for his role in paving the way for the revolutionary work of Monet, Renoir, Degas, Cezanne and [...]

Two generations of Cuban-born architects, father and sons, have worked in succession over a span of 50 years to give Tampa one of the nation’s most forward-looking and inspirational airports. Carlos Alfonso worked in Havana during the 1950s and ‘60s, first on casinos and later for the Castro regime.  He also maintained a healthy Bauhaus-influenced [...]

An expressionist with a streak of formalism, Ali Cavanaugh offers insights into the unexpected and recognizable aspects of life with playful and thought-provoking figurative paintings. Winner of the prestigious Presidential Scholarship from the David Kendall Foundation, she graduated from Kendall College of Art and Design in 1995. She quickly established a following of students and [...]

With the opening of Brazilian native Claudio Edinger’s new photography show at 1500 Gallery in West Chelsea, gallery co-owner Andrew Klug says he’s hit the cover off the ball. The show, “Sao Paolo Ambiguous,” opens Dec. 1 and runs through March 26, 2011. The twelve photographs, mostly architectural, were taken in the photographer’s home town [...]

With photographs by Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange and Jack Delano depicting designs by Benjamin Latrobe, Louis Sullivan and McKim Mead and White, author Keith Eggener has mined the archives at the Library of Congress for a new look at American cemeteries. “They’re functional, for both the dead and the living,” he said.  “There are funerals held [...]

Translated from Latin, the new architecture partnership’s name means “in the place.”  But what Matt Griffith and Erin Sterling Lewis really want to do with their firm, called in situ studio, is to collaborate and help clients make their place in this world. Both are recent associates in Frank Harmon’s office in Raleigh.  Matt also spent four years [...]

Throwing down the gauntlet earlier this month for its second-ever Arch Is competition, the American Institute of Architects Los Angeles is inviting young architects and designers living in California to submit their projects - and engage the profession in a dialog. “By the time architects are in their mid-‘30s, they’re getting to the point of combining their ideals from [...]

An 11-acre, Taliesin-like landmark in Raleigh N.C. is about to be transformed into low-income housing. Landscape architect Dick Bell’s Water Garden was conceived in the mid-‘50s as a Shangri-La for the creative community in central North Carolina. It was decades ahead of its time. The well-known landscape architect developed it as the city’s first mixed-use development [...]