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...
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,...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
Tom Kundig’s architecture is about connecting art and physics, linking inside with outside, and placing small houses in big, wild landscapes for maximum joy. He draws on a rich set of ideas and instincts from a childhood in Spokane, where he served an apprenticeship of sorts, as a laborer and carpenter’s...
Landscape architect Chris Counts has cast an ambitious and imaginative eye upon the Forum in Rome. A visiting professor at the University of Virginia and former senior associate with Michael van Valkenburgh in New York, he earned his master’s degree in landscape architecture from Harvard’s School...
Beaux Arts master Richard Morris Hunt designed 14 churches in his lifetime, and built only six. Just one survives today. Five were razed or destroyed by fire over the years, leaving All Souls Episcopal Church in Biltmore Village near Asheville the lone survivor. It’s also the architect’s...
On what was, a decade ago, a toxic dumping ground in southeastern Raleigh, an urban wetlands center now triumphantly embraces nature while it hovers lightly near a creek-fed, 30-acre forest. “Our goal was to return it to the people,” said architect Frank Harmon of the Walnut Creek Urban Wetlands...
