On May 4th, 2011, A CLICHÉ VIEW OF LOS ANGELES FROM ABOVE…
…through the layers of spring LA basin haze – viewed from my window airplane seat on my way out, after just two days of dipping back into my…
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On May 2nd, 2011, A CLICHÉ VIEW OF SAN FRANCISCO FROM ABOVE…
…is the best part of having to stop at SFO on my way from MFR to BUR this afternoon.
On May 1st, 2011, MAY DAY CAMPING OUT IN THE FAERIE WOODS…
…of southern Oregon – a relaxed, rough, rustic, hippie, wild, primitive, queer, and anything-goes kind of circumstance which is feeling like the most welcome and opposite sort of…
On April 30th, 2011, OFFSHORE DUTCH WIND TURBINES…
…seen from above this morning are a surprising grid of spinning fans swimming in the sea under the flight path out of Schiphol on my way back to…
On April 13th, 2011, TUSCAN PLASTIC CROP COVERS…
…(for strawberries?) are the cool shocking shiny surfaces wrapping parts of the rolling spring green surfaces of southern Tuscan landscapes as viewed from my very slow one car…
On April 3rd, 2011, ISTANBUL POLICE SAFETY MARCH…
…with a seemingly endless Turkish flag flowing down İstiklal Caddesi greeted me out the window this morning and here is what I could glean from Skyturk.com (through the…
On March 28th, 2011, ROTTERDAM’S HOLLAND AMERIKA LIJN…
…shipping headquarters and migrant housing for the thousands of Dutch headed to New York’s Ellis Island used to occupy this stately 1901 building, which survived wartime bombing, at…
On March 27th, 2011, LITTLE DUTCH KIDS ON BIKES…
…is what I am noticing around springy Amsterdam today – after an early arrival to Schiphol for a few days around the Netherlands for meetings about upcoming projects …
On March 24th, 2011, NAPOLI STREET FLOWERS AND STREET TRASH…
…I see side by side here in this wild majestic city which has been suffering from waste management issues for years.
On January 17th, 2011, LANDING AT FIUMICINO…
…feels like coming home now (with Alitalia yesterday afternoon) – approaching from the north over fields and farms of Lazio is especially welcoming – making me want to…
On January 16th, 2011, FISHING ON GALATA KÖPRÜSÜ…
…or Galata Bridge, spanning Istanbul’s Golden Horn, is a popular activity and everyday you will find both ends of the bridge full of fishermen shoulder to shoulder with…
On January 15th, 2011, ISTANBUL VIEW FROM GALATA KULESI…
…the medieval tower dating from 1348 located in the center of the Galata district provides a dramatic overview of the city on my last night – but looking…
On January 13th, 2011, ISTANBUL BOUND…
…for a first visit about a new project, after waking up in Rotterdam, lunch meeting in Den Haag, flying out of Amsterdam, stopping over in Rome for a…
On November 14th, 2010, THE BERLINER STADTSCHLOSS…
…occupied a central position on Berlin’s museum island, and despite much protesting from the West was eventually demolished by the GDR in 1950 after damage from Allied bombings,…
On November 13th, 2010, THE BERLIN TIERGARTEN MEMORIAL TO HOMOSEXUALS PERSECUTED…
…under Nazism by Berlin based artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset (whose place I happen to be staying at this week) provides a poetically uncomfortable public moment as…
On November 12th, 2010, GLOOMY BERLIN WEATHER…
…is not preventing me from being excited to be in this town that I have not had occasion to visit in years (I actually happened to be here…
On November 11th, 2010, SHEEP AT GOETHE’S WEIMAR HOUSE…
…are sweetly mowing the lawn on a chilly afternoon in front of the garden house of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe which he used as a Summer retreat after…
On November 9th, 2010, THE IUAV IN VENICE…
…was where I studied architecture from 1990-91 and did my thesis with Aldo Rossi – and today (a typical cold rainy lovely mess) it was my special pleasure…
On October 7th, 2010, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE’S ‘ITALIAN JOURNEY’…
…an account of his hastily planned 1786-87 trip south to escape his humdrum daily obligations in Germany and luxuriate in the Italian culture he had been dreaming about…
On October 4th, 2010, THE MEADOW ROOF OF AN AMSTERDAM HOUSEBOAT…
…is the coolest thing in town for me today, which I have come across on a few occasions during past visits and again today as I staggered around…