This now can attach in seamless step to the end of my last post on adaptability— concluding with the thought that upcoming architectural typologies, building technologies, and client mentalities are to benefit more than anything from the ability to change and morph harmonically with their surroundings. At this moment I am most interested in the […]
The Parrish Art Museum is doing a fantastic job of delineating a history of art specific to Southhampton. On display are artists, native and migrant, who have contributed to the area’s now-iconic imagery of nature, building, and lifestyle since 1900 with their work. Included in that roster are William Merritt Chase, Esteban Vicente, Eric Fischl, […]
“It is important to let others lead from time to time, to not assert your leadership which, I admit, sometimes feels made up.” As the leader of the lecture and the reason all comers came, he walked third in the procession down the lawn, kicking up orange leaves. Johnson’s glass house looked on from the side. It […]
Though the details I design daily are not on par with those brought to my attention by Christian (with Peter Pennoyer; resplendent in all their curvature, skirting between the Euclidian and the organic, awash with white plaster…) eroticism figures in our discourse enough to warrant a more than cursory investigation of its stake in the […]
Jody Brown @ Coffee With An Architect, you forgot a few.
I’ve dabbled in so many pieces of information in so many fields in the past week–even in the past day. I realized that the contemporary knee-jerk term “instant gratification” is not what is really at the heart of the common generation-Y (?) mindset. Let’s curb our cynicism for a moment and consider a more optimistic […]
A Virgo Architect par excellence ! Represent
While weaving through the armory show’s booths (with sights like that), a lubricated Charlotte and I got to talking about the past. We eventually arrived at London, 2007. As I spoke of the neighborhoods and the walks I took, I noticed my recollection of the place was very idyllic. It dawned on me that my […]
A brief (but good) review of Kathi Weeks’ “The Problem With Work.” Channeling Paul Lafargue. I am incrementally beginning to appreciate society’s need for reviews– it is in fact a very real need, and just one example of how we, the social and societal species, rely on language and conveyance for understanding. In fact, I […]
Andres Duany @ U Miami Witnessing my own conversion from skepticism to understanding (notice: not not balls-out adoration, only a greatly deepened understanding) has convinced me that any other architects on this earth with minds sufficiently open will find themselves titanically swayed by this lecture. Oftentimes, what great texts will do is simply paraphrase existing […]