On May 17th, 2013, A DANISH THATCHED ROOF…
…spotted on the drive from our Edible Estate garden site back to Aarhus is worth screeching to halt and turning back to inspect and get a few photos…
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On September 23rd, 2012, IKEA DISOBEDIANTS AT MOMA PS1…
…by Andrés Jaque Architects encountered after my conversation with Annie Novak during a break from installing Domestic Integrities at MoMA across the river, was one of the favorite…
On June 16th, 2012, THE 2012 SERPENTINE GALLERY PAVILION…
…in London’s Kennsington Park designed by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei – where I made my way for a quick visit this morning before the 11am…
On April 22nd, 2012, THE MSU BROAD MUSEUM…
…designed by Zaha Hadid will be opening soon (but not as soon as they thought while battling some construction and eccentrically shaped glass fabrication issues) and cool to…
On February 11th, 2012, LUNCHEON ON THE NEW BLUE TABLE…
…(a triangular modular system that can take just about any form you can imagine) in my dome organized by Francois Perrin this afternoon was an intimate kick-off for…
On January 23rd, 2012, THE EAMES LIVING ROOM…
…(so familiar to me from regular pilgrimages during my early years in LA, when I trotted every out-of-town-guest for a visitation to the Pacific Palisades home of Charles…
On January 22nd, 2012, A CEDAR SOAKING TUB…
…and outdoor shower which I had been scheming for years to place in this strange previously unoccupied corner of the house overlooking the garden – was finally just…
On January 20th, 2012, NEUTRA VDL RESEARCH HOUSE…
…the great mid-century modernist residential landmark on the Silver Lake Reservoir now managed by Cal Poly Pomona, hosted small reception tonight (by architect Francois Perrin for French artist Xavier…
On December 11th, 2011, ‘HOME WORK: HANDBUILT SHELTER’…
…the super charming 2004 survey of hand made homes (adobe, bark, barns, bottles, camps, canvas, floating, geodesics, green-roofs, mobile, mud, sandbags, straw, stone, tiles, timber, tiny, tipis, thatch, treetops, yurts…) from all over – including…
On November 1st, 2011, HALF-PIPES AND SOVIET MONUMENTS…
…sitting side by side in a park in central Sofia, Bulgaria – with young Balkan skate rats attired in impressively authentic Western skate rat fashions – is what I noticed…
On October 27th, 2011, A MINNESOTA URBAN WOODLAND TEEPEE…
…is just what every little kid around here needs to escape to – out the back door during those cabin fever winter days – and today I helped…
On October 26th, 2011, BREUER AND POTTERY AT SAINT JOHN’S…
…today started with a visit to the studio of Richard Bresnahan, where we drank delicious green tea out of his earthy sumptuous cups and teapot (similar to the…
On October 22nd, 2011, ŁÓDŹ TOWER BLOCKS AND VEGETABLE MARKETS…
…oppressive and quaint, global and local, dominating and warm, standing side by side, on the same street, duking it out.
On October 6th, 2011, BUDAPEST’S ÓBUDA ESTATE…
…Soviet Housing blocks, where experimental and innovative residential designs for the masses were tested out during the 1960’s before being constructed across the country, was the destination of…
On October 5th, 2011, BUDAPEST’S WEKERLE TELEP…
…the delightful utopian Garden City-inspired suburban development with a rural village-like feel, featuring a diversity of housing types in a lively mix of regional Hungarian styles and motifs…
On September 29th, 2011, NEVADA DOME VIEW…
…is what I got here in Reno (where I have just arrived for a talk at the Art + Environment Conference at the Nevada Museum of Art) from…
On September 27th, 2011, A GREEN BUILDING…
…discovered around the corner here in Saint Paul is a five story apartment building with a west-facing ground-to-roof wall of ivy – cool.
On September 14th, 2011, ISTANBUL CAT ESTATES…
…some of them lovingly hand-painted and even featuring the name of the cat over the front door, are what I stumbled upon (almost literally) this afternoon, filling a…
On September 2nd, 2011, PUGLIA’S TRADITIONAL AGRICULTURAL BUILDING TYPES…
…are what have drawn me to this place more than anything, such as the dry-stone conical domes of the trulli, modest shelters or residences found mostly in the…
On August 30th, 2011, A TOWER FOR PIGEONS…
…at the masseria I visited late this afternoon near Nardo’ must be the coolest thing I have seen on my Puglia adventures so far – an Animal Estate…