Gustafson Guthrie Nichol is an 11-year-old landscape architecture firm – and winner of the prestigious 2011 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award – that’s just beginning to make a difference in the way we live in our cities, coast-to-coast. “We’re relatively young,” said principal Jennifer...
The architect who’s left the Northwest with an abiding legacy of buildings that combine art, nature and a new urban culture, learned from legends like Paul Kirk and Ralph Anderson, is about to give the region something more: A retrospective exhibition of 30 of his designs, spanning a 45-year career....
Wende Craig’s story is a tale of stitchery and serendipity that spurred a career. Her mother taught her to sew 43 years ago. As a teen, she saw one of her friends doing appliqué, and tried her hand. A little later, one of her wood-working brothers gave her a catalog from a 1910 show featuring the...
If the concept of inserting a swimming pool into the waters surrounding lower Manhattan seems somewhat radical, it does have its precedent. That pool, shaped like a plus mark, has been proposed by Dong-Ping Wong of F A M I L Y Architects, along with Archie Lee Coates IV and Jeffrey Franklin of PlayLab. ...
By Frank Harmon How ironic that Jefferson’s architecture, in its day so radical, is now revered in Virginia for its traditional appearance. How sadly ironic, too, that the man who wrote the Declaration of Independence had his fields plowed and his kitchen tended by enslaved people. His grand vision...
By Frank Harmon To reach one of the most remarkable historic homes in America, you first must pass through a pleasant and thoroughly familiar suburb of ranch houses in the rolling hills of southwestern Virginia. There, among the barbeque grills, carports, and basketball goals stands the second home...
Some architects work toward contextual conformity. Pam Campbell works toward flexibility for use, user and environment. In Syracuse, the architect from New York’s Cook + Fox looked back at the agricultural practices of local Native Americans to find a solution for infill housing for an aging neighborhood...
Giovanni Barbieri has been working in his family’s Italian stone business since 1975, when he was 14 years old. By the time he was 18, he was made partner. He’s known as a cutting-edge innovator when it comes to stonework, marble and tile He strives for products and processes that no one else can reproduce....
By JoAnn Locktov Bobby Silverman thought he wanted to be a social geographer – to study spatial patterns and investigate how and why we live and work where we do. On the way to get his degree, though, he took a detour to Japan. There he witnessed the daily use of handcrafted objects, born of traditions...
Henry Smith-Miller grew up in the village of Mount Kisco in Westchester County, N.Y., near Frank Lloyd Wright’s Usonia, with its 19 small and inexpensive homes set in the woods, two of them designed by the master himself. “They were an alternative to suburbia,” Smith-Miller said. “They had no front...
