A 1987 painting by Robert Overby ignited the imaginations of Jessica Shaw and the client who showed it to her. It’s called “Computer Whiz” and it hangs in TriBeca’s Andrew Kreps Gallery. And Shaw’s design for an eighth-floor, five- bedroom apartment at 81st and Broadway, in a building by Robert...
Today, we thought it appropriate to take a look back at a post about our third president – the only amateur architect among the entire 46. Like the rest of us, Thomas Jefferson was a complex person, full of conflicts and contradictions. In May 2019 we covered an exhibition about the man in full...
After publishing three books on masterworks by his great-grandfather, Samuel G. White is zeroing in on the finer points of his work. “Stanford White in Detail” focuses on ornament and interiors that the partner in McKim, Mead & White dispatched with unmatched elegance in the late 19th and early...
In the end the 1920s-era home in Austin, designed by architect Henry Bowers Thomson for clients Edgar and Lutie Perry, was too much. When Edgar Perry sold the 10-acre estate and its 10,600-square-foot residence in 1944, he said the mansion was “a great place to throw a party, but too big to live in.”...
On a site where Black factory workers once manned a Ford assembly line in Charlotte, four young African American architecture students soon will see their designs come to life. Their work will be part of a 73-acre development with an industrial past and a promising future, in one of Charlotte’s lowest-income...
It took five years but it felt like 25, says architect, planner, and author Victoria Ballard Bell. That’s because her new book – “Triangle Modern Architecture” – is about as thorough a tome on the topic as possible. She takes us back to the beginning – to the Bauhaus and Josef Albers and Black...
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,...
For New York’s ODA Architects, practice really does make perfect. Seven years ago the firm was challenged by a developer to design an apartment building in Queens – on a budget, with smaller spaces. “We came up with the idea that you can project with concrete up to seven feet and it doesn’t cost...
A native of Great Britain, Tim Street-Porter studied architecture there before arriving in Los Angeles four decades ago – along with his wife, writer and designer Annie Kelly. He immediately fell in with an unknown group of makers and designers in Venice Beach. Among them: Artist Ed Ruscha, and an unknown...
In a virtual era dominated by Zoom, Twitter, and TikTok, a design firm called Roto is breathing real-world fun into public spaces. Since 2004, they’ve been creating unique experiences for museums, zoos, aquariums, attractions and brand destinations for clients worldwide. Kids’ museums are a specialty...
