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…
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On November 10th, 2010, CORVIALE…
…is a massive Corbusian housing block designed by a team of Italian architects and built in 1972 in the southwestern outskirts of Rome – and I have recently…
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 November 8th, 2010, A VENETIAN FRUIT VENDOR…
…in the Venice sestiere of Cannaregio where I lived from 1990-91, was the highlight of my day, involving a visit back to my old street, Calle Riello, only…
On November 7th, 2010, ANDREA BRANZI AT THE VENICE BIENNALE…
…was really the only highlight for me this year – part of Archizoom, co-founder of the Domus Academy, provocative thinker, writer, philosopher, designer, activist and architect in the…
On November 6th, 2010, A TUSCAN FARMHOUSE…
…at least 500 years old, southeast of Florence, just up the hills of Bagno a Ripoli, right after the tiny village La Fonte is where I lived from…
On November 5th, 2010, LETTUCE IN CARTONS…
…is beginning to pop up – obviously enjoying the alternating sunny and rainy weather we have been having – and creating brilliant contrasts between the raw wood crates…
On November 4th, 2010, POTATOES GROWING IN BURLAP COFFEE BEAN BAGS IN WOOD FRUIT CRATES…
…is the cute, rustic, and homespun exception to my otherwise ‘trashy’ (in the best sense) garden of exclusively found, salvaged, and recycled goods with all of the plants…
On November 3rd, 2010, WORM COMPOSTING…
…also known as ‘vermicoltura’ around here, is going well up on the Roman rooftop and the little red worms are reproducing quickly, eating their daily kitchen scraps, turning…
On November 2nd, 2010, ‘EDIBLE LANDSCAPING’ BY ROSALIND CREASY…
…which first came out in 1982, and was pretty much the only published resource out there on the topic when I first started the Edible Estates project in…
On November 1st, 2010, ITALIAN TRAIN STATION GRAFFITTI…
…and their welcome colors are something I am admiring on the rails from Chiusi to Roma Trastevere this rainy afternoon.
On October 31st, 2010, THE BARLEY FIELDS…
…of Southern Tuscany, the austere sensuous rolling terrain marked with cypress lines and clusters is one of my favorite all-time landscapes which even seems sacred and mystical speeding…
On October 30th, 2010, BRUNELLO DI MONTALCINO VINEYARDS…
…are on fire right now in the most spectacular spectrum of shades from bright yellows to gaudy pinks and deep magentas which are also all to be found…
On October 29th, 2010, BORGO FINOCCHIETO…
…is a medieval village (circa 1200) on a hill near Buonconvento in the province of Siena on Via Francigena, the historic pilgrimage route from Canterbury to Rome, that…
On October 28th, 2010, FIRE DRILL AT THE ACADEMY…
…was an unexpectedly fun communal post-lunch social event signaled by the alarm bells and then culminating with the entire American Academy in Rome community gathered around a welcome…
October 27th, PAPER MACHE BALLOON MASKS…
…are being made for the kids, and some of the adults, at the Academy tonight.
On October 26th, 2010, DINNER WITH ALICE WATERS…
…at the American Academy in Rome tonight (over the delightful food prepared in the kitchen she revolutionized, and presided over by the indomitable indefatigable Mona Talbott) was a…
On October 25th, 2010, PRIAPUS BY BERNINI…
…presents a lovely bounty in basket and on head as you enter the back gardens as Villa Borghese, though the original now sits back in New York at…
On October 24th, 2010, ROMAN ROOFTOP HOMESTEAD ARRANGEMENT…
…is at version 3.0 with small revisions every day, and now my worm compost bin is outside too, so the worms can get a little fresh air.
On October 23rd, 2010, EMPTY SWIMMING POOL AQUAPONICS
…is something that I recently came across (at gardenpool.org) where a whole subterranean productive animal/vegetable realm is created within empty backyard swimming cavities in which kitchen garden plants,…