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...
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...
Brian Rose has published the definitive photographic book on the demise of Confederate statues on Richmond’s Monument Avenue. Heady symbols of one of the most racist, far-reaching, and outright false propaganda campaigns ever, the statues of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, J.E.B....
Casa Hormiga is a new, design-forward, boutique hotel in Bacalar, a small town on Mexico’s southern border (near Belize) in the state of Quintana Roo. This jungle sanctuary opened in August of 2020 with 18-rooms, a spa, a restaurant/bar and a pool. Its design acknowledges the beauty of imperfection...
San Francisco-based architect John Klopf may have built a reputation for restoring hundreds of Eichler homes, but his newest effort in Sonoma drew its inspiration from Europe. More specifically, from the Barcelona Pavilion designed by Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich as the German Pavilion for the 1929...
