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Since 1821, the college has evolved from South Hall, built by local townspeople, to Italianate and Gothic structures, to a classical Palladian scheme, to a soon-to-come 21st-century campus center by Herzog & de Meuron.

February 5, 2020 by Mike Welton

From Blair Kamin, a Tour of Amherst College

What these three – Robert McCarter, Juhani Pallasmaa, and Kenneth Frampton – want to communicate with this book is how MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects approaches a site to push a building out of its environment.

February 3, 2020 by Mike Welton

Economy as Ethic: MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple

HIs book is a visual representation of Hemingway's memoir, "A Moveable Feast."

January 29, 2020 by Mike Welton

Retracing Hemingway’s Steps in Paris

In "Dream of Venice Architecture, a cadre of architects and architectural writers – this one included – explore the elements that make Venice a one-of-a-kind, drop-dead-gorgeous place in this world.

December 18, 2019 by Mike Welton

Give the Gift of Good Design this Year

Its photographs are by Guillaume de Laubier, a lifestyle photographer whose work has been featured in Elle Decor and Vogue.

December 16, 2019 by Mike Welton

‘The Parisians: Tastemakers at Home’

The studio works on both high-end residential and hospitality projects in the U.K. and around the world.

December 11, 2019 by Mike Welton

‘Elemental,’ by Fiona Barratt-Campbell

With more than 'Creative Paris' addresses a community of five million women.

November 20, 2019 by Mike Welton

Creative Paris: To Surprise and Tell Stories

Published by Phaidon, the 320-page book features drawings from Michelangelo to Frank Gehry, Louise Bourgeois to Tadao Ando, B.V. Doshi to Zaha Hadid, and Grafton to Luis Barragan.

October 25, 2019 by Mike Welton

‘Drawing Architecture’ from Phaidon

Geffroy translated ideas from couture into the interior design idiom, taking light fixtures and covering them, and draping upholstery with dressmaking techniques.

October 22, 2019 by Mike Welton

‘Swoon-Worthy’ Dior and His Decorators

Venice, La Serenissima, that ancient and venerable city built on water, has been painted, designed, photographed, composed to and sung about, has been written about in prose and verse for hundreds if not thousands of years by many of the artistic and literary greats.

October 21, 2019 by Mike Welton

Reflections of Venice, in Photos