Grungi frutti.
Near Fell's Point in Baltimore, on my way back from taking Michaela to work. She's learning to drive. I figure the East Coast is a good place to learn how to drive defensively, as long as you don't get killed in the process. East
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Cities and the quiet interface.
She walked by just as I was taking the shot. This little old lady next to the tall, glass, modern building in SOHO, filled with architects sitting down for a presentation, those builders and definers of the urban space.
While in New York last week, my senses were heightened of
Urban interaction.
In my ongoing thinking about the city as an interface – as an operating system, if you will, of this thing we call Earth – I picked up a book I bought while in grad school: Universal Principles of Design. It lists a multitude of various design elements and principles to consider
I want new letters.
The fact that graduate design programs bestow upon their students the MFA (Master of Fine Arts) degree is antiquated and irrelevant. Instead, the design discipline should have its own standardized classification of academic distinction, as programs at IIT, Cincinnati, and Carnegie Mellon do: a Master's of Design. And
The work of A. Aubrey Bodine.
Will and I went to breakfast a couple of weekends ago at our favorite restaurant in Baltimore so far, Golden West. It's in Hampden, a really cool Baltimore neighborhood about four miles from our house. Kind of like a mix between Seattle's Fremont and Ballard neighborhoods,
Worthy architecture.
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"A development which spoils ten square miles of countryside will be the work of a few people neither particularly sinful nor malevolent. They may be called Derek or Malcolm, Hubert or Shigeru, they may love golf and animals, and yet, in a few weeks, they
Falling Water.
Fallingwater from Cristóbal Vila on Vimeo.
As Will and I ponder whether to buy or build, I came across this computer-generated film on Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterpiece. Simply amazing.
The lovely Cathedral.
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It snowed in DC yesterday. I love the snow. Taken from my open living room window.
La Maison de Verre.
I must go see this house next time I’m in Paris….
The Best House in Paris
By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF
Published: August 26, 2007 in the New York Times
PARIS
NO house in France better reflects the magical promise of 20th-century architecture than the Maison de Verre. Tucked behind the
The O'Shea Building.
I went on an architecture tour of downtown Seattle a few weeks ago. In an effort to learn more about my city’s history, I’m trying to pay attention to the names and stories of buildings downtown that I really like. Take the O’Shea Building, for example. Built