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 28th, 2011, ART + ENVIRONMENT CONFERENCE…
…is why I’m headed to Reno tomorrow, where the Nevada Museum of Art hosts the 2nd edition of the gathering featuring two days of talks and conversations, and…
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 26th, 2011, CHANGING COLORS…
…are an occasional sign of looming autumn here on Summit Avenue in the Ramsey Hill neighborhood of Saint Paul, Minnesota.
On September 25th, 2011, PICKING APPLES…
…is a tradition for the family this time of year on our Minnesota apple orchard up on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River just south of Minneapolis-Saint Paul,…
On September 24th, 2011, SECTION 2 OF THE HIGH LINE…
…extending north through New York’s east 20’s just opened in June and today was my first chance to take a stroll and check it out – continuing the…
On September 23rd, 2011, ‘LIVING AS FORM’…
…the sprawling exhibition housed in the Historic Essex Street Market of over 100 socially engaged artists, projects, and collectives organized by Creative Time – including The Sundown Salon…
On September 22nd, 2011, ANNOUNCING ‘ANIMAL ESTATES LONDON HQ: URBAN WILDLIFE CLIENT SERVICES’…
…coming soon to Arup in London: ANIMAL ESTATES 8.0: LONDON, ENGLAND Animal Estates London HQ, Urban Wildlife Client Services at Arup Phase 2, 8 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 4BJ October 13th,…
On September 21st, 2011, THE NEW SOUTH LAWN AT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY…
…will be colonized by a group of students that I (along with architecture professor Dan Wood of Work A.C.) will be working with next term as a professor…
On September 20th, 2011, PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURE SOCIETY…
…volunteers tend the recreated typical 18th century Philadelphia garden that I passed by this afternoon (on my way to the Apple Store for an emergency laptop battery procedure…
On September 19th, 2011, AMBER AIRPLANE SUNSET…
…was what we were treated to as we descended from the boring grey top landscape of clouds, into a thin sandwich of ethereal clouds full of a glowing…
On September 18th, 2011, DAY 2 ‘COMPOSTED CONSTRUCTIONS’…
…ended with a flurry of muddy activity as rains let up, the sun came out, and we installed our two days of creations around the Stroom’s Foodprint Erasmusveld…
On September 17th, 2011, DAY 1 OF DEN HAAG’S ‘COMPOSTED CONSTRUCTIONS’…
…(my project for Stroom’s Foodprint Erasmusveld, an experimental-settlement/ecological-exposition opening September 30th) consisted of a 10am pick-up by the Refunc folks in their cool truck for a ride to…
On September 16th, 2011, BYE-BYE ISTANBUL…
…my kindly taxi driver said as I took a few last pictures of the city from the back seat of his cab on the way to Ataturk Airport…
On September 15th, 2011, ISTANBUL BIENNIAL PARTY VIEW OF THE CITY…
…from the rooftop of the Marmara Pera hotel in the Beyoğlu quarter of Istanbul, was the perk of one of the many parties kicking off the Istanbul Biennial…
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 12th, 2011, MARK DION IN ISTANBUL…
…is assembling materials for his upcoming installation at the soon to open SALT Galata – and lately when I’m traveling I’m often just missing this inspiring artist, arriving…
On September 11th, 2011, ISTANBUL KIDDIES IN THE HOTHOUSE…
…(the Edible Estates garden headquarters at SALT Beyoglu) gathered for some gardening workshops with Pelin Demereli throughout the afternoon, and since I couldn’t understand anything they were saying,…
On September 10th, 2011, ISTANBUL GARDEN WORKSHOP ACTIVITIES…
…today and tomorrow (plus a talk this evening) have brought me back to town to check in on the Edible Estate rooftop hothouse garden headquarters on top of…