January 2, 2007
re-Cyclorama
Over the holidays I had the good fortune to visit Richard Neutra’s Cyclorama in Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Originally completed in 1962…
Architecture
December 29, 2006
Making the list
The end of the year always brings lists, new year’s resolutions, to-do lists, best-of lists, you name it. Well, here’s…
December 21, 2006
Old vs. New
In this week’s DWR newsletter the topic was the new Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, designed by Jean Nouvel. What we…
December 12, 2006
The new Denver Art Museum
The mile-high city of Denver doesn’t immediately conjure images of modern architecture, yet the City’s downtown boasts works from Gio…
November 14, 2006
Going Once, Going Twice…
Wright, the Chicago-based auction house, will offer Pierre Koenig’s Case Study House #21 (1958) at auction on December 3, 2006.…
November 3, 2006
Stairway to Finland
The rainy weather in San Francisco gave me the perfect reason to head to a lecture last night at the…
November 3, 2006
Unveiling of the Ban and Maltz House
The Houses at Sagaponac is a development launched by the late Harry J. Brown and Richard Meier, featuring 34 summer…
August 5, 2006
Gehry: The Simpsons, sterling and film
Southern California has been a breeding ground for modernism in architecture since the 1920s, populated by legendary iconic characters like…