In a slim little volume that’s eminently readable, visionary architects Amale Andraos and Dan Wood have documented how their firm, WORKac, recruited a team of 150 collaborators, built an elevated urban farm at the Museum of Modern Art’s (MoMA) P.S.1 courtyard in Queens, New York, and put on a party...
Haskell Harris, associate editor at Garden & Gun, fervently believes that we’re caught up in the middle of a resurgent new Craftsman Movement. Her “Made in the South” section – from the soulful, Charleston-based magazine that delivers new meaning to the phrase “up-and-coming” –...
Micah Condon’s web site, www.dailypainters.com, has no shortage of aspiring artists waiting to post their work in his galleries. In fact, he’s basically got an embarassment of riches. “We’ve always had a big waiting list,” he said. “So this time, we decided to hold a competition to see who the next...
If he were a patient man, Mike Hughes might have turned to architecture for a career. Instead, he helped fast-track a small Southern ad agency into a top-tier, nationally-known communications firm. He’s president of The Martin Agency, named 2010 “Agency of the Year” by ADWEEK. That magazine...
Pritzker Prize laureate Zaha Hadid’s spectacular National Museum of XXI Century Arts, featuring the first national museum of architecture in Italy, will open May 30 in Rome. The Iraqi-born architect that New York Times critic Nicolai Ouroussoff called a modern-day Bernini won the competition for the project...
Sometimes, the smartest thing a writer can do is get out of the way. That’s what Saxon Henry did with her new book, “Four Florida Moderns,” and the tactic’s paid off handsomely. Though she interviewed architects Alberto Alfonso, Rene Gonzalez, Chad Oppenheim and Guy Peterson, she chose not to inject...
Every year at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York, Skram Furniture out of Hillsborough, N.C. unveils its new, modern, approachable products to the market. This year is no different, said Skram founder Jacob Marks (that’s Skram spelled backwards) – except for the debut of heavyweight...
Artist Brian Plaster has taken a 1952 Sears home in Carrboro, N.C. and turned it into a gallery clad in found objects. It was a wreck when he found it fifteen years ago. Abandoned cars littered the back yard. Massive pine trees, their trunks three to four feet in diameter, leaned against exterior walls....
Louis Sullivan was a conflicted genius – and we’re all better off for it. “This is an American Vincent Van Gogh story,” said Mark Richard Smith, whose independent film, “Louis Sullivan: The Struggle for American Architecture” has just been named best documentary film at the Kansas City Film...
In April 1925, Courtenay S. Welton penned an article for The Southern Architect and Building News on “Houses of the Georgian Period.” Among the residences he surveyed was his own ancestral home, the Nelson House in Yorktown, Va. “The bricks were brought from England and are laid in Flemish bond,...
