2023 offered up a kaleidoscope of quality books on architecture, art and design – and A+A was fortunate enough to review a bunch of them – from Shingle Style to Modern, from Chicago to Morocco and from Kamin to Kligerman. For the 2023 holiday season then, we suggest you select more than one of these...
Today, A+A is running the second installment of a two-part feature article I wrote for a recent issue of the Virginia Sportsman magazine. It documents the efforts of landscape architect Will Rieley and Eric Proebsting, Poplar Forest‘s director of archeology and landscapes, to restore Thomas Jefferson’s...
Here we have Part I of a two-part post I wrote on the restoration of the landscape at Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest in Bedford County, Virginia. This feature-length article appeared in a recent issue of the Virginia Sportsman magazine: Decades in the making, the first phase of the revitalization...
It’s on a movie set originally called “Willieville,” built in the early 1980s for a 1985 film called “Red Headed Stranger.” The movie was based on a song by Willie Nelson, and starred him. The set was built on his ranch. It was to be temporary, and to be burned down after the filming. That...
The online edition of Ocean Home magazine recently published a feature I wrote after a five-day trip to Naples, Florida. It covers some of the most luxurious hotels and resorts in town, and A+A is pleased to re-post it here today. With almost nine miles of beachfront, Naples looks west to the Gulf of Mexico...
Designed for a family of five, Basecamp is sited in the heart of Big Sky, Montana. It’s a retreat from an East Coast urban mecca to a site 7,500 feet above sea level in the mountains of Moonlight Basin. “We worked with two clients from New York, and he had grown up on the East […]
“For a long time after Lever House opened its doors, throngs of people waiting patiently in great queues in the lobby, demanded admission so insistently that the elevator system, designed to handle only Lever Brothers’ office staff of twelve hundred employees and a normal complement of visitors,...
Fresh out of Harvard’s GSD in the late 1980s, Naomi Pollock suddenly found herself face-to-face with a new academic advisor at Tokyo University’s graduate school of architecture. She was there because her husband had been offered an opportunity in Japan – which gave her the opportunity to survey...
Just over the pass from Jackson, Wyoming lies a residential resort community called Tributary. It’s different over there in Idaho. It’s quiet. And a little more isolated. “There’s more valley, it’s open to the mountains and people can walk or drive to a national park and not see many others,”...
A small town with 3,000 residents near Topeka, Kansas is home to the largest Catholic Church in the state. Its Latin masses, K-12 school and four-year college draw people to move there from all over the nation. I wrote about Civium Architecture & Planning’s design for the church in the current...
