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…
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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 13th, 2011, SUPERPOOL…
…the Istanbul based architecture studio founded by Turkish Selva Gürdoğan and Danish Gregers Tang Thomsen, presented their design of the exhibition ‘Becoming Istanbul‘ (in collaboration with the graphics…
On September 7th, 2011, RIDLEY’S FOOD FOR FOOD TEMPORARY DINING EXPERIENCE…
…opened tonight in the middle of London’s Ridley Road Market in Dalston – which I visited with my London Animal Estates collaborator Benjamin Reichen (of the super design…
On September 4th, 2011, TRULLI THEN OSTUNI…
…was the order of the day, as I finally departed Lecce, continuing my Puglian journeys gradually making my way west then north on the slow side roads through…
On September 3rd, 2011, LECCE DECORATIONS…
…in super baroque style are intricately carved into local honey Lecce limestone covering every available square millimeter of each billboard-like neighborhood church facade, and parts of almost all of…
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 September 1st, 2011, A MASSERIA (WITH FRANTOIO IPOGEO)…
…is something I have had an intense architectural crush on since first reading about them last year (a fortified farmhouse unique to Puglia, often with a series of…
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…
On August 29th, 2011, NARDO’…
…with a dreamy baroque historic center where old men bike around aimlessly and gather on benches with friends you imagine they grew up with on that same block,…
On August 25th, 2011, PALAZZO SAN GIORGIO IN GENOVA…
…the Italian town I have been curious about and yet to visit was conveniently on my way from Aix-en-Provence to Brindisi, so after a long windy scenic train…
On August 23rd, 2011, AIX-EN-PROVENCE…
…my next stop this afternoon as I gradually make my way by train south from meetings in the Netherlands to a long awaited pilgrimage to Italy’s mysterious heel…
On August 18th, 2011, A LITTLE HUT AND LITTLE DOCK…
…on this little lake in the woods nearby, where we are spending our days in the sun and water, are each big enough for one – maybe two…
On August 12th, 2011, REFUNC IN DEN HAAG…
…are the handy recyclrey designery arty folks I’ll be working with on an upcoming project here in the fall produced by Stroom – so this afternoon in a…
On July 22nd, 2011, Y.A.P. AT MAXXI…
…is the Young Architects Program originated at NYC’s PS1 and now a new summer fixture at Rome’s MAXXI, where young Roman architects have created rolling mounds of lawn,…
On July 17th, 2011, SPERLONGA…
…was my last minute destination of choice this morning to escape the city for a day, biking to Termini and hopping on a train to take me to…
On July 9th, 2011, GARBATELLA VS. CORVIALE…
…was the story of the day as we made long anticipated pilgrimages to both planned communities just outside of the Roman center, starting with the 11-story 1 kilometer-long…
On July 5th, 2011, LEVANTO…
…is the Ligurian beach town where my friend, and before that her her mother, grew up spending summers in a cute yellow house on the main street of…
On July 3rd, 2011, TRAJAN’S FORUM…
…on a Saturday night all lit up in lavenders and yellows looked a little Roman-themed Vegas Strip mixed with gladiator-themed gay disco – but I’m not complaining, it’s…
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…