“It’s one of those topics that I find very hard to boil down into short, concise pieces,” said Carl Stein of his new book, “Greening Modernism,” from W. W. Norton Company. And for good reason. It’s a complex subject, but tackled head-on by an architect who’s worked on projects ranging...
Building tree houses and wooden boats wasn’t just a childhood past-time for Doug Lapham of Shooting Star Forge. It laid the foundation for his works of art that are both functional and sculptural. An avid recycler, he recognizes the potential in all materials. He’s developed an eye for unusual...
The irony of living in a post-9/11 America is that non-architects are now designing our built environment, according to The Chicago Tribune’s architecture critic, Blair Kamin. At One World Trade Center, New York City police are pushing David Childs of Skidmore Owings & Merrrill to assure that the base...
Where Ada Louise Huxtable of The Wall Street Journal once asked if we’d kicked a building lately, Blair Kamin of the Chicago Tribune now urges us to grasp fully the state of design since 9/11. In his new book, “Terror and Wonder: Architecture in a Tumultuous Age,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic...
Zac Guy got his start in the recycled antique wood business when he took down a barn while still in high school. “A local builder asked me if he could buy the wood out of the back of my truck,” he said. “Then he said that if I could find more of that quality, he’d […]
Anyone who’s ever wanted to spend the night in a building by Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier or any number of other well-known architects has now got the green light. Boutique-Homes offers rentals in Europe and North America of architect-designed, contemporary and modern homes, including Wright’s...
Since its introduction in early 2009, the student-built Taliesin Mod.Fab has proven its miserly nature by using practically no energy for heating or cooling. With 36 SIPs, the elegant little 600-square-foot home absorbs the winter sun while providing plenty of shade during summer. “It seems to be doing...
Bob Trotman is a philosophy major from Washington & Lee who turned to fine furniture making after a few years of teaching school in Virginia. Now, 30 years later, the Winston-Salem native lives in the foothills of North Carolina, working solely as a sculptor dedicated to making wry and poignant commentaries...
Bob Bennett and his partners at U.S. Green Energy Corporation in Fredericksburg, Va. are squeezing the costs and rigidity out of photovoltaic solar arrays. They’re doing it with lightweight fiberglass and tempered glass photovoltaic sheets they sell and install by the square foot – with a look that’s...
Lisa Jackson is an interior designer who sees herself as an editor. She doesn’t like precious – she doesn’t understand it. She’s not an antique dealer, though she loves and sells the occasional piece. She simply believes, like Hemingway, that what she leaves out is just as important as what...
