On August 4th, 2011, ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MIRACLE…
…the influential 2007 familial account of eating products grown close to home for a year by Barbara Kingsolver with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver, is one of…
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On July 19th, 2011, SCANDRIGLIA…
…in the Sabina of Lazio was the destination of our morning road trip to visit Oretta Zanini de Vita (the font of inspiration and information regarding cucina Italiana…
On July 18th, 2011, ‘ROMA MANGIA ROMA’ INTERVIEWS #18-21…
…took us to a family of three generations living in a newish housing development about 8 km south of central Rome – still within the Grande Raccordo Anulare,…
On June 26th, 2011, ‘A PATTERN LANGUAGE’…
…the iconic influential book by Christopher Alexander is standard issue to architecture students since it emerged out of the Berkeley in the 1970’s, which we were introduced to…
On June 24th, 2011, ROMA MANGIA ROMA INTERVIEW #15…
…conducted yesterday just blocks from my studio on the top floor of a modern Monteverde apartment building was with Gianfranco Baruchello (b. 1924) – the Roman artist whose book…
On June 13th, 2011, ‘THE CONSCIENCE OF THE EYE’…
…is the obliquely titled and themed 1990 book by Richard Sennett that I just finished reading which is about the divides between inner experiences and outer lives in…
On May 30th, 2011, ‘URBAN UTOPIAS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY’…
…is the illuminating well-written 1977 book of this well-trodden utopian territory by Robert Fishman – which gives a super great overview of the political and philosophical underpinnings of…
On May 20th, 2011, ‘ROMA MANGIA ROMA’ INTERVIEW #11…
…this afternoon was a follow up to the interview with 15 year old ragazza Romana last month who recounted her early interest in cooking and cucina Italiana inspired…
On May 16th, 2011, READING ‘LIVING THE GOOD LIFE: HOW TO LIVE SANELY AND SIMPLY IN A TROUBLED WORLD’…
…from cover to cover on the nine hour plane ride from Portland back to Europe is blowing my mind because it seems so fresh, like it could have…
On April 27th, 2011, ‘MAKING IT: RADICAL HOME EC FOR A POST-CONSUMER WORLD’…
…is the smartly-titled latest book by urban homesteaders Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen (previously mentioned here) – and designed by graphic designer friend Roman Jaster – which I…
On April 12th, ‘ROMA MANGIA ROMA’ INTERVIEW #9…
…was conducted this morning with Livia and Franco – who met when they were 14 and have been married for 53 years – in their cozy long-time quarters…
On April 10th, 2011, ‘ROMA MANGIA ROMA’ INTERVIEW #7…
…of 35 planned interviews with five generations of people living in Rome (about how they organize their homes and lives around food, their memories and current thoughts on…
On March 21st, 2011, ‘HOW TO IMAGINE: A NARRATIVE ON ART, AGRICULTURE AND CREATIVITY’…
…is the 1984 book of musings (as recounted to and translated by Henry Martin) by Italian artist Gianfranco Baruchello (b. 1924) who in 1973 decamped to a modest…
On February 24th, 2011, MUSICAGE…
…the 1996 book by Joan Retallack (subtitled ‘Cage Muses on Words * Art * Music‘) features fantastic reflections on, interviews with, and poetry by this humane, earthy, soulful,…
On February 19th, 2011, ‘URBAN HOMESTEAD’…
…is a term that has been around since at least the 1970’s, so it was with some surprise when we heard the press swirling with stories about a…
On February 18th, 2011, THE FOOD OF ROME AND LAZIO…
…the 1994 book by Oretta Zanini de Vita full of fascinating accounts of Roman’s relationships to food through time featuring folklore and recipes (with chapters including Mills on…
On December 26th, THE SUNDOWN SALON UNFOLDING ARCHIVE…
…the limited edition 150 foot long accordion book (with hand silk-screened covers by participating artists) documenting in words and photos the five years of events at my LA…
On December 21st 2010, THE X INITIATIVE YEARBOOK…
…is the book just out from Italy’s Mousse Publishing, which documents the one year of exhibitions, installations, projects, and events at the temporary non-profit art space spearheaded by…
On November 17th, 2010, BRACKET ISSUE #1 ‘ON FARMING’…
…is the premiere issue of the journal published by the Barcelona based architecture imprint Actar which has its release today at the University of Toronto, where I visited…
On November 16th, 2010, ‘A LANDSCAPE MANIFESTO’ BY DIANA BALMORI…
…is the smart & beautiful new book that I am seeing all over Europe by the innovative and influential New York-based Argentinian – by way of Spain and…