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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.

June 17, 2010 by Mike Welton

SO-IL Designs a Residence for Modernist Ivan Chermayeff

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, he’s just published a tongue-in-cheek update of the classic fable.

June 16, 2010 by Mike Welton

‘Three Little Pigs’ Is Architecture for the Young at Heart

To get us there, she draws from photographic technology as old as the Civil War.

June 10, 2010 by Mike Welton

In Savannah, Ellen Susan’s Haunting Portraits of Soldiers

“Louis Sullivan: The Struggle for American Architecture,” recognized at the Kansas City Filmfest in April as Best Documentary Film, will be shown at 11:00 AM and 1:30 PM on Thursday, June 10.

June 9, 2010 by Mike Welton

Mark Smith’s Film on Louis Sullivan Debuts in Miami Beach

A graduate of the Academy of Art University there, he began displaying his work in galleries right after graduation

June 8, 2010 by Mike Welton

Siddarth Parasnis Likes to Let the Painting Take Over

On Thursday, June 10 at 7:00 AM, the editor of Miami Modern Metropolis will be giving a talk on “Miami Beach and the Resurgence of the Boutique Hotel.”

June 7, 2010 by Mike Welton

‘Imagining a New Florida’ at the 2010 AIA Convention

It was not in the best condition. He’d purchased about six hundred lots that varied in size from a half-acre to hundreds more.

June 4, 2010 by Mike Welton

George Vanderbilt’s Well-Managed Piece of Land

They are, respectively, director of horticulture and historic gardens manager for thousands of acres on the property.

June 3, 2010 by Mike Welton

At Biltmore Estate, Restoring Olmsted’s Vignettes of Beauty

The collaborative efforts in the Carolina mountains by Frederick Law Olmsted, Richard Morris Hunt and George Vanderbilt left behind more than a beautiful French Renaissance home in the American style.

June 2, 2010 by Mike Welton

Near Asheville, N.C., a Triple Threat at Biltmore Estate

The home takes its name from the view out its north portico. There, Jefferson allowed a stand of thirteen poplars to grow. Five of them remain today.

May 31, 2010 by Mike Welton

At Poplar Forest, Moving Earth to Frame Our Views