Quote for Today: Rebecca Solnit
Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in …
From Weapons to Stories: Repurposing the Park Avenue Armory
Can historic military landmarks find new purpose? Once crumbling, the Park Avenue Armory has reinvented itself by embracing the arts. The Seventh Regiment, or Park Avenue, Armory in New York City is impressive from …
Living in a Crack: Keret House in Warsaw, Poland
Less than 4 feet at its widest point, Keret House, the narrowest residence in the world, isn’t for the claustrophobic. Polish architect Jakub Szczesny is famous for radical thinking inside a …
Quote for Today: Philip Johnson
Concrete you can mold, you can press it into – after all, you haven’t any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture? You’d …
Be It Ever So Humble: The Southern Shotgun House
Society has a tendency to write off working class neighborhoods as lacking in creativity and artistry. Are we missing something? Vernacular architecture is that which uses local construction materials to …
Illuminating Architecture: Projection Mapping and O (Omicron)
We assume that technology will take us into the future, but what happens when it connects us with the past? Hala Stulecia, or Centennial Hall, in Wrocław, often known as …
Changing with the Times: Philosophy and Architecture of Oxford’s Bodleian Library
Libraries do more than house books. How do they reflect the culture of those who build, maintain and enjoy them? One of the oldest libraries in Europe, the Bodleian consists …
From Cave to Palace: Mocárabe in Architecture
Architecture is full of flowers, textures and patterns of nature. How do these recollections both soothe and impress the eye? We are accustomed to seeing stylized imitations of plant and …
Art from Dark Places: Caves as Houses of Faith
Caves are places of deep spiritual significance, containing connotations of safety and shelter on one hand and darkness and terror on the other. Much like the human psyche itself, a …
Quote for Today: Rebecca Solnit
Walkers are ‘practitioners of the city,’ for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking is the act of speaking …