“It’s one of those topics that I find very hard to boil down into short, concise pieces,” said Carl Stein of his new book, “Greening Modernism,” from W. W. Norton Company. And for good reason. It’s a complex subject, but tackled head-on by an architect who’s worked on projects ranging...
The irony of living in a post-9/11 America is that non-architects are now designing our built environment, according to The Chicago Tribune’s architecture critic, Blair Kamin. At One World Trade Center, New York City police are pushing David Childs of Skidmore Owings & Merrrill to assure that the base...
Where Ada Louise Huxtable of The Wall Street Journal once asked if we’d kicked a building lately, Blair Kamin of the Chicago Tribune now urges us to grasp fully the state of design since 9/11. In his new book, “Terror and Wonder: Architecture in a Tumultuous Age,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic...
Zac Guy got his start in the recycled antique wood business when he took down a barn while still in high school. “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 […]
Anyone who’s ever wanted to spend the night in a building by Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier or any number of other well-known architects has now got the green light. BoutiqueHomes offers rentals in Europe and North America of architect-designed, contemporary and modern homes, including Wright’s...
Since its early 2009 introduction, the student-built Taliesin Mod.Fab has proven miserly by using practically no energy for heating or cooling. With 36 SIPs, the elegant little 600-square-foot home absorbs the winter sun while providing plenty of shade during summer. “It seems to be doing quite well...
Mosaic artist Julie Richey spent two months working to bring a mannequin to life. She started with a tiny torso that a jeweler might use to display precious gems. She added carved Styrofoam, then fiberglass mesh and a skim coat of Thinset. Then came the marble flecked with golden yellows, followed...
What the politicians, economists and architects in Brasilia could not achieve in the 1960s, Andrew Klug and Murillo Meirelles have accomplished at the 1500 Gallery in Manhattan today. They have sanctified that revolutionary city built from scratch in the International style. It does not hurt, of course,...
Nancy Gong create arts out of glass for specific environments, seeking to find the soul of a place. “Because the majority of my work is commissioned, it’s inspired by where it’s being installed, who’s going to be experiencing it, where they’re coming from and how the building...
When it came time in 2005 for veteran mosaic artist Julie Richey to get serious about her work in glass, she headed off to the Sestiere di Cannaregio in Venice and the Domus Orsoni. There she found a remodeled and redesigned foundry that still produces smalti, or enameled glass, the same way it did a […]
