“Great architecture has only two natural enemies:” photographer Richard Nickel once wrote. “Water and stupid men.” He was certainly in a position to know. From 1952 until 1972, he devoted his life first to photographing the work of Adler & Sullivan in Chicago, then to salvaging...
If anyone can testify that necessity is the mother of invention, it’s David McAdam. In 2003, the former marketing and public relations executive bought a piece of desert property in Yucca Valley, Calif. Buyer’s remorse set in the next day. “It was a pile of rocks and trees, and I knew I’d never...
One can’t help but think that Frank Lloyd Wright would be pleased on a number of levels. In a building next to his 770th and last commission – the Marin Civic Center in San Rafael, Calif. – in an exhibit hall credited to Taliesin Architects, the 27th Marin Show: Art of the Americas will run for […]
The visual poetry of Jason H. Green’s work in tile speaks a language of patience and introspection. His father built houses, so he was exposed to “layering of skin on skeleton” while he witnessed the construction process. And in his own renovation work, he knows how a simple fragment...
The unlikely Brussels sprout – that tiny cousin to a cabbage once maligned by diners everywhere – is now celebrating a chic and elevated status as icon for excellence in international design. In April 2010 architects Cesar Bustos and Ignacio Gomez, both located in Dubai, launched brussels sprout...
Daniel Bluestone, who directs the historic preservation program at the University of Virginia, has published a new book that seeks to articulate the values inherent in preserving our buildings and landscapes. “It’s an ambitious book, but not a ‘how-to’ book,” he said. “Part of its challenge...
The Weekly Standard calls Witold Rybczynski “architecture’s voice in the world of letters.” He writes about design and planning for The New York Times, the Atlantic, The New Yorker, and Slate. He’s been awarded the Vincent Scully Prize by the National Building Museum, and he’s the author...
When he hasn’t been building architectural models for Centerbrook Architects during the past nine months, Patrick McCauley has been working on a 1:12 scale model of former New York Herald Tribune publisher John Hay “Jock” Whitney’s 1937 yacht, the Aphrodite. One of Centerbrook’s clients owns...
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...
With photographs by Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange and Jack Delano depicting designs by Benjamin Latrobe, Louis Sullivan and McKim Mead and White, author Keith Eggener has mined the archives at the Library of Congress for a new look at American cemeteries. “They’re functional, for both the dead and the living,”...
