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“Why mix them up? I’m sort of at a loss,” says Bill Beiswanger, director of restoration at Monticello.

October 29, 2010 by Mike Welton

Symbolism of a Different Order at Jefferson’s Poplar Forest

When Manteo native Richard “Dick” Bell launched his practice in 1955, he was just a few years out of N.C. State’s School of Design.

October 26, 2010 by Mike Welton

In Carolina, Dick Bell’s Life in Landscape Architecture

Among them were Alfred Stieglitz, Constantin Brancusi, Buckminster Fuller, Richard Neutra, Martha Graham, Man Ray, Merce Cunningham, George Balanchine, Willem De Kooning, Edward Durell Stone, Marcel Breuer, Gordon Bunshaft and Louis Kahn.

October 22, 2010 by Mike Welton

Isamu Noguchi: An Artist with a Collaborative Appetite

Thomas Jefferson trusted John Hemings implicitly with the joinery inside and outside his Palladian retreat near Lynchburg.

October 21, 2010 by Mike Welton

At Poplar Forest, John Hemings Was an Artisan for the Ages

In his new book, “Terror and Wonder: Architecture in a Tumultuous Age,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic strives mightily to define architecture during an epoch bracketed by “two great thunderclaps in the sky” – the destruction of the World Trade Center in 2001 and the completion of the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, in 2010.

October 18, 2010 by Mike Welton

From Blair Kamin: Learning to Value a Livable City

In his new book, “Terror and Wonder: Architecture in a Tumultuous Age,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic strives mightily to define architecture during an epoch bracketed by “two great thunderclaps in the sky” – the destruction of the World Trade Center in 2001 and the completion of the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, in 2010.

October 15, 2010 by Mike Welton

The Chicago Tribune’s Blair Kamin on ‘Terror and Wonder’

“A local builder asked me if he could buy the wood out of the back of my truck,” he says. “Then he said that if I could find more of that quality, he’d buy that too.”

October 14, 2010 by Mike Welton

In North Carolina, Turning Chestnut and Pine into Homes

BoutiqueHomes offers rentals in Europe and North America of architect-designed, contemporary and modern homes, including Wright’s Schwartz House in Wisconsin and Corbu’s apartment in Marseilles.

October 12, 2010 by Mike Welton

Where to Rent an Architect-Designed Vacation Home

By the time it was finished, he’d already designed Monticello in Charlottesville, the state capitol in Richmond, two wings for the White House in Washington, and the campus for the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

October 11, 2010 by Mike Welton

At Jefferson’s Poplar Forest, Landscape as Architecture

The HOK master planner and landscape designer helped lead a team of 450 to design and build a 6.5 million-square-foot campus for science and technology in Saudi Arabia.

October 8, 2010 by Mike Welton

HOK Master Plans a Saudi Campus to Rival Stanford