Photographer Wayne Thom arrived in Southern California too late for the midcentury modernists. He was too early for the history-bending postmodernists. But he was just in time for the late modernists. And he went after them with a vengeance. “He would ride on window washers’ scaffolding, hang out of helicopters,...
When all was said and done after the 2021 Matsumoto Prize Competition was finalized, the jury favored the North Carolina mountains – while the popular vote liked the beach. Asheville architect Maria Rusafova’s Casa Negra came in first place in the eyes of the judges. The Caffey Guest House by Stitch...
Effective graphic design, says Archigrafika’s founder Michael Gerbino, is about communication. And if it looks good, that helps too. “It communicates in so many different ways,” says the adjunct professor at Pratt Institute, his alma mater. “If you’re in the subway looking for a train, it helps...
A short Victorian jacket, its lining barely frayed, inspired a new collection from Bella Notte Linens. It’s called Harlow, as in Hollywood’s Jean. “I found this beautiful velvet jacket in an antique store – it’s from the early 1900s,” says Leeta Steenwyk, Bella Notte’s design director....
Sometimes, serendipity spurs events that clearly were meant to happen. For example: A 2017 encounter between two artists in residence at Ragdale Foundation in Lake Forest, Il. has led to a book that explores the relationship between artists and their environments. Writer Melissa Wyse and illustrator...
Hundreds of books have been written about Frank Lloyd Wright – the architect himself penned 18 – but few pack as much punch as the newest tome by Aaron Betsky and Gideon Fink Shapiro. 50 Lessons to Learn from Frank Lloyd Wright is about the architecture, not the man or his personal life. It’s illuminated...
A new Urban Courtyard project in Durham, designed by BuildSense, is a model of respect. It was designed for a couple – he’s a musician and she’s a professor at Duke University. Its site’s within easy walking distance of the Duke campus, so that took care of the professor’s commuting...
If there‘s one word to describe the direction of Bill Pedersen’s career in architecture, it’s up. His new book from ORO Editions, “Gesture and Response,” documents 25 of his best-known projects – most of them reaching skyward. Pedersen studied architecture and played hockey at the University...
Last week, Glenstone Museum announced plans to construct a building specially conceived to house a major sculpture by American artist Richard Serra, extending the museum’s outdoor program of art, architecture, and landscape along its Woodland Trail in Potomac, Md. Glenstone’s initial gallery...
During the lull of the 2020 pandemic, New York photographer Brian Rose did some serious sleuthing on his family’s Virginia roots. And made some startling discoveries. Both sides of his family tree reached back hundreds of years – one, all the way to Jamestown in 1608, a year after the colony was established...
