Richard Francis-Jones is a leading Australian architect who, during the pandemic, penned a book titled “Truth + Lies in Architecture”, just out from ORO Editions. The publisher calls it “a collection of provocative essays that journey into the vexed circumstance of contemporary architectural...
Last year, Cean Irminger found women to be her inspiration for a new mosaic collection. A year earlier, it was Art Deco. This year, the creative director at New Ravenna Mosaics on Virginia’s Eastern Shore is looking to nature. “I wanted something something plant- and animal-based,” she says. “I...
So why shouldn’t co-living spaces have recording studios and green rooms? This is Hollywood, after all. And Leeor Maciborski, founder of the Eddy brand of housing, knows what his target market wants. “We have recording studios for podcast-terms,” he says. “And there are green rooms where...
Princeton Architectural Press editor Jan Hartman was running a Google search not long ago, looking for a book idea on collective architecture. She wondered: Should it be architects under 40? Architects over 80? Or what? Then she had an epiphany: “Ninety-five percent of the names that came up were men,”...
Lucas & Lucas is all about site planning. With it, the Healdsburg, California-based architecture and landscape architecture studio strives to unify buildings and landscape. “What’s the difference?” asks Mike Lucas, who founded the firm with his wife, an architect, in 2005. “The land should...
In late 2021, I penned a feature article for Metropolis magazine’s online site about a wine tasting room out in the middle of a field of barley, just south of Walla Walla, Washington. Born during the pandemic, it was highly successful as a destination because it’s basically an open-air experience....
Back on February 23, Metropolis magazine ran an online feature I wrote about the design of a complex of three buildings by Seattle’s Graham Baba Architects for award-winning Woodinville Whiskey. At first glance, the structures look like any other steel buildings. But a closer examination shows a serious...
Before there was the Woodstock Festival of 1969, there was the Maverick Festival of the 1920s. In the actual Woodstock, N.Y., not on Max Yasgur’s Farm. “It was a marvelous Bohemian festival celebrate art and artistry,” says Jennifer Golub, author of a new book about two of its more noteworthy attendees....
Alejandro Merizalde’s background is in painting, which he practiced for a number of years in New York, resulting in a few shows and gallery representation. In 2007, he realized he no longer had anything to say through that medium and stopped painting, cold turkey. A year or so later, looking for another...
Richard Francis-Jones is a leading Australian architect who, during the pandemic, penned a book titled “Truth + Lies in Architecture”, just out from ORO Editions. The publisher calls it “a collection of provocative essays that journey into the vexed circumstance of contemporary architectural...
