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Siting quietly amongst its more noisome arts neighbors, the relatively new Clifford Still Museum in Denver is a wholly different kind of museum. Designed by Allied Works Architecture, the museum was designed to house explicitly the work the abstract expressionist painter. Instead of the generic and changeable nature of the galleries of a typical museum, [...]
Lebbeus Woods passed away last week. It is almost impossible to overemphasize the impact that this “paper” architect has had on the world of architecture. A long-time professor at Cooper Union, he directly influenced generations of students at one of the most important schools in the world, during its most profoundly influential period. But it [...]
some of the many years of sketchbooks with images of coffee shops and cafes from M. Gerwing Architects
I have written a number of times about bridges, their simple beauty and the increasingly rare appearance of steel arched types. This bridge, in central Kansas, crosses a small river not far from the original path of the Oregon Trail. On this day it was dripping from a recent rain and the sky was an [...]
A number of years ago, we won a little competition to design a winter-time cover for a large basin-type fountain in a small park in Chicago. The fountain is named after Nelson Algren, the novelist and occasional screenwriter who wrote vivid, sentimental-free stories of the bartenders, prostitutes and gamblers of Chicago. When I lived in [...]
I posted this a couple of years ago and thought I would put it back up today in honor of the great Maurice Sendak who just passed away. This little sequence, where Max’s room turns into a forest, is one of the reasons I became an architect. Thank you Mr. Sendak. “That very night in [...]
Currently at the Denver Art Museum is an exhibit of the photographic work of Robert Adams. Robert Adams grew up in Colorado and is best known for his photographs of the New West – the human impacts on the landscape. Unlike Ansel Adam’s stunningly beautiful images of western landscapes, Robert Adam’s images are a combination [...]