Solid Objectives – Idenburg Liu (SO-IL) is an architecture firm known for setting directions rather than making statements. The firm rarely fails to help us think about where we are, but more important, where we’re heading. Its loosely choreographed and intuitive attitude toward our environment...
Seventeen years ago, Cedric Smith turned a love for advertising into a career as an artist. He’d been working as a barber’s apprentice in Atlanta. “To me, cutting hair was like sculpting,” the forty-year-old painter says. When Mississippi artist William Tolliver came into the shop for a trim,...
In a slim little volume that’s eminently readable, visionary architects Amale Andraos and Dan Wood have documented how their firm, WORKac, recruited a team of 150 collaborators, built an elevated urban farm at the Museum of Modern Art’s P.S.1 courtyard in Queens, New York, and put on a party...
Like Frederick Law Olmsted, Alex Garvin has been working with parks his entire life. With dual degrees – one in architecture and another in city planning – he’s taught at Yale University for the past 43 years. He helped usher in the transformation of Atlanta’s Beltline from train tracks to urban...
The story of Ivan Chermayeff and SO-IL is a tale told by a crisis. In 2008, six weeks before the collapse of Lehman Brothers, Jing Liu, a native of China, and her Dutch partner Florian Idenburg set up their architecture practice in New York. They’d worked together in Japan with 2010 Pritzker Prize...
Steve Guarnaccia isn’t naming any names, but his “Three Little Pigs” bear a certain resemblance to some familiar faces. The chair of the illustration program at Parsons The New School for Design, former art director for The New York Times op-ed page and illustrator for Rolling Stone and New York,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
