Modern Architecture Archives | Page 9 of 14 | Architects + Artisans

“Mike Welton is a natural writer. The craft of his language is equal to the craft of the buildings and artifacts he writes about. He is the Vasari of the contemporary scene. I read Architects + Artisans as much for the beauty of his prose as I do for the cool things he writes about. He’s the real thing. Mike discovers in each window, each bench and each type of building a unique expression of architecture.” — Frank Harmon, FAIA, Principal, Frank Harmon Architect, Author: “Native Places: Drawing as a Way to See,” Raleigh, N.C.

January 10, 2020 by Mike Welton

For A+A’s 10th Anniversary, a Look Back

During the summer of 1972, with project architect Tod Williams on site and Richard Meier in his New York studio, the pair traded initial sketches back and forth.

January 8, 2020 by Mike Welton

A Website Dedicated to the Douglas House

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

The building faces directly onto Irving Place, one of the few city streets that do not run river to river. Instead, it runs north to south, and in effect terminates with the Chrysler Building.

December 13, 2019 by Mike Welton

In New York, Zero Irving by Davis Brody Bond

Paul McClean grew up in Dublin, sure from the age of four or five that he wanted to be an architect.

November 22, 2019 by Mike Welton

An Irish Architect in Southern California

The Henderson contains 170 guest rooms and 10,000 square feet of conference space. Across the street, on the oceanfront, is the adults-only Henderson Park Inn.

November 18, 2019 by Mike Welton

In Destin, Chill at the Henderson Resort

Low slung in stature, the interior is open and features exposed wood beams inspired by needles and branches of the native Torrey pine.

November 13, 2019 by Mike Welton

In Del Mar, an Iconic Civic Center

Its design direction originally initiated by the late Phil Freelon of Perkins+Will North Carolina, it’s now being developed by a team led by Zena Howard of the same office.

November 8, 2019 by Mike Welton

Detroit’s Motown Museum: Perkins+Will

Ed Hollander recreated the dunescape and planted it in beach grass, goldenrod, beech trees, plums and bayberries – all native to what was there 100 to 200 years ago.

November 6, 2019 by Mike Welton

Kikoski and Hollander in Sag Harbor

Turkish craftsmen dug and drilled by hand 22 meters down, to set pilings of steel filled with concrete, carefully sited among the artifacts. Now there’s an open-air museum, open to the public on the lowest level, with the hotel atop.

November 1, 2019 by Mike Welton

In Turkey, a Hotel Built atop Antiquities