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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.

In Carolina, Dick Bell’s Life in Landscape Architecture

Mike Welton October 26, 2010

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.

Isamu Noguchi: An Artist with a Collaborative Appetite

Mike Welton October 22, 2010

Thomas Jefferson trusted John Hemings implicitly with the joinery inside and outside his Palladian retreat near Lynchburg.

At Poplar Forest, John Hemings Was an Artisan for the Ages

Mike Welton October 21, 2010

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.

From Blair Kamin: Learning to Value a Livable City

Mike Welton October 18, 2010

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.

The Chicago Tribune’s Blair Kamin on ‘Terror and Wonder’

Mike Welton October 15, 2010

“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.”

In North Carolina, Turning Chestnut and Pine into Homes

Mike Welton October 14, 2010

BoutiqueHomes offers rentals in Europe and North America of architect-designed, contemporary and modern homes, including Wright’s Schwartz House in Wisconsin and Corbu’s apartment in Marseilles.

Where to Rent an Architect-Designed Vacation Home

Mike Welton October 12, 2010

By the time it was finished, he’d already designed Monticello in Charlottesville, the state capitol in Richmond, two wings for the White House in Washington, and the campus for the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

At Jefferson’s Poplar Forest, Landscape as Architecture

Mike Welton October 11, 2010

The HOK master planner and landscape designer helped lead a team of 450 to design and build a 6.5 million-square-foot campus for science and technology in Saudi Arabia.

HOK Master Plans a Saudi Campus to Rival Stanford

Mike Welton October 8, 2010

With 36 SIPs, the elegant little 600-square-foot home absorbs the winter sun while providing plenty of shade during summer.

At Taliesin West, an Elegant, Efficient 600 Square Feet

Mike Welton October 7, 2010

Now, 30 years later, the Winston-Salem native lives in the foothills of North Carolina, working solely as a sculptor dedicated to making wry and poignant commentaries on corporate America.

In North Carolina, Norman Rockwell Meets Karl Marx

Mike Welton October 6, 2010

No, the architect and interior designer who strives to take the edge off modernism with his trademark soft palette sought out an old friend, Jay McInerney.

‘Made to Order,’ a Monograph by Designer Campion Platt

Mike Welton September 30, 2010

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.

Julie Richey Designs a Mosaic in Three Dimensions

Mike Welton September 23, 2010

“It was a test for us: how to apply LEED criteria to prime farmland,” says Roberto De Leon, principle in the firm.

Kentucky Barns of Bamboo & Steel by De Leon & Primmer

Mike Welton September 21, 2010

In 2005, Henry Ng, executive vice president of the World Monuments Fund (WMF), and Nancy Berliner, curator of Chinese art and culture at the Peabody Essex Museum, stood in the garden of The Qian Long emperor in the Forbidden City in Beijing.

At the Peabody Essex, Treasures from the Forbidden City

Mike Welton September 17, 2010

And George Washington Vanderbilt’s library at Biltmore Estate in Asheville was state-of-the-art for 1895.

A Home for Napoleon’s Chess Set at Biltmore Estate

Mike Welton September 16, 2010

They have sanctified that revolutionary city built from scratch in the International style.

At the 1500 Gallery in West Chelsea, the Past as Future

Mike Welton September 13, 2010

“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 is being used,” she says.

Nancy Gong: Works in Glass for Architectural Spaces

Mike Welton September 10, 2010

The tapestry hall is memorable for its near-palpable feeling of having been truly lived in and enjoyed, almost a century after George Vanderbilt stopped spending his leisure time here.

At Biltmore Estate, Books, Prints, Tapestries and Mountains

Mike Welton September 9, 2010

The planning application for his Handsmooth House, designed for comedic actor Rowan Atkinson and his wife Sunetra, was approved on August 25 by the South Oxfordshire District Council.

After Three Years of Politics, Meier Debuts in Great Britain

Mike Welton September 8, 2010

There she found a remodeled and redesigned foundry that still produces smalti, or enameled glass, the same way it did a century ago.

For Mosaic Artist Julie Richey, a Salon and Studio in Venice

Mike Welton September 3, 2010

From Ocean Home Magazine, an Ode to the Shingle Style by Patrick Ahearn Architect

September 12, 2025 by Mike Welton

A Monograph on the Highland Park Residence by Afterstudio Architects

September 8, 2025 by Mike Welton

In a Tony Dallas Neighborhood, Afterstudio Architecture Creates a Home and Studio

September 5, 2025 by Mike Welton

‘Art Deco: The Golden Age of Illustration’ at the Sarasota Art Museum in Florida

September 2, 2025 by Mike Welton

At the Sarasota Art Museum in Florida, ‘Art Deco: The Golden Age of Illustration’

August 29, 2025 by Mike Welton

Rammed Earth for the 21st Century Featured in Big Sky Journal’s HOME Edition

August 25, 2025 by Mike Welton

From Period Homes Magazine, a Secluded Residential Compound in Buckhead

August 22, 2025 by Mike Welton

On the North Carolina Coast, the Curious Facts Concerning Cottage Time

August 18, 2025 by Mike Welton

A Team of Designers Leaves No Trace behind in a Duxbury Bay Compound

August 15, 2025 by Mike Welton

A Down-at-the-Heels Midcentury Modern Gets a 21st-Century Reprieve

August 11, 2025 by Mike Welton

Atlanta’s Point Office Respects the Coastal Vernacular of Figure Eight Island Architecture

August 8, 2025 by Mike Welton

At New Ravenna, Glass and Stone Mosaics Inspired by the Seaside

August 4, 2025 by Mike Welton

At the Paul Rudolph Institute in New York, The Susan Grant Lewin Collection

August 1, 2025 by Mike Welton

In Malibu, a Modern-Day Phoenix Rises from the Ashes of a 2018 Fire

July 28, 2025 by Mike Welton

NCModernist Names Six Winners in Matsumoto Prize Competition

July 24, 2025 by Mike Welton

Klopf Architecture Remodels a Mid-Century Modern in Orinda

July 21, 2025 by Mike Welton

From Northshore Home Magazine, the Modern Beach House

July 18, 2025 by Mike Welton

In Richmond, Architect Josh McCullar’s Polished Point of View

July 14, 2025 by Mike Welton

From Virginia Living Magazine, a Richmond Architect for the Ages

July 11, 2025 by Mike Welton

Three New Patterns in Jewel Glass from New Ravenna Mosaics

July 7, 2025 by Mike Welton