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November 2, 2010 by Mike Welton

In New York City, a Competition with a Can-Do Spirit

Once Native American introduced it to European colonists, tobacco quickly became a cash crop in Virginia, Maryland and Carolina.

November 1, 2010 by Mike Welton

In Carolina, the Case of the Vanishing Tobacco Barns

“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

“You can’t put him in any category,” says Ghislain dHumieres, co-curator of a new exhibition of Goff’s work at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma in Norman.

October 27, 2010 by Mike Welton

In Oklahoma, the Music and Architecture of Bruce Goff

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