A look back at the history of New Ravenna’s founding, at the makeup of its current staff, and the British Arts and Crafts movement has inspired a new collection of handcrafted mosaics. New Ravenna was founded in 1992 by artist and designer Sara Baldwin. It’s staffed mostly by women today. And the Femme...
Marilyn Henrion may be entering her ninth decade as a New Yorker, but she’s as prolific as ever. The 1952 graduate of Cooper Union was born in Brooklyn and has been living and working as an artist in Greenwich Village for the past seven decades. She’s a student of the urban landscape of New York...
Like a lot of events obscured by the pandemic of 2020, the 90th anniversary of the opening of the Chrysler Building slipped right by most of us. The 77-story Art Deco masterpiece by architect William Van Allen opened on May 27, 1930. For a brief 11 months, it was the tallest building in the world, […]
A long-lost 1952 design by Mies van der Rohe for a fraternity house on the Bloomington campus of Indiana University is now under construction. For unknown reasons, the Alpha Theta chapter of Pi Lambda Phi never turned their 10,000-square-foot design into reality. “It’s not clear as to the roadblocks...
Today, A+A is enjoying its annual sojourn at its favorite beach on a barrier island off the Carolina coast. Some years back, a friend asked for a few words on the nature of Cottage Time, and we happily obliged him. Though he’s no longer with us today, the words he sought endure. Pythagoras, when...
A constrained site led architect John Sather through months of problem-solving for a new clubhouse at Lake Tahoe. To the south is a golf course. To the north, a nature preserve. To the east is a residential complex. And to the west lies Lake Tahoe itself. Then there was the easement that runs through...
In 2018, a couple of Seattle-based architects – one formerly with Olson Kundig and the other once with Heliotrope – bailed on the Pacific Northwest and headed east for Idaho. Eschewing the life of practicing architects, they embarked on a new kind of service-based business. It’s called Notion Workshop...
Jim Verdone landed in Jackson, Wyo. in 1977, fresh out of N.C. State’s College of Design. He was the only practicing landscape architect in a town where the concept was neither understood nor valued. “Back then, it was mostly civil engineers doing the site planning,” he says. “I saw the opportunity...
Harry Mark and Cody Clark, co-founders of RSM Design, operate at the intersection of graphic design and architecture. They work with firms like Rem Koolhaas/OMA in L.A., Diller Scofidio + Renfro in Las Vegas, and Snohetta in El Paso, developing brand narratives within the context of culture or history...
A new home on 13 acres near Pittsboro, N.C. – designed by Raleigh’s Louis Cherry Architecture – draws strongly on Brazilian modernism. That’s because one of its owners actually grew up in Brazil, the son of American missionaries. And when he reached out to Cherry to discuss the design for a residence...
