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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 [...]
Many years ago I lived in Venice for a time. I was an enthusiastic architecture student from the rolling hills of central Kentucky and my arrival in Venice still resonates with me. Not so much the first impression or even the first day or two, but that growing feeling of unease and intrigue upon slowly [...]
last Friday evening, I attended the Mixed Taste event at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver. http://www.mcadenver.org/index.php/programs/Mixed_Taste_Summer_Series The idea of this is to attempt to ferret out the strange and serendipitous connections between two disparate topics. Two short talks are presented on two completely different topics. Last Friday that was Chef Jorel Pierce discussing [...]
Last weekend my family and I went to the Stock Show in Denver. Amid all the cows and horses were an amazing collection of antique tractors. Hard to get much more beautiful than these. for Jim
Many of you who live in Boulder may have read the Daily Camera stories about the mystery artist whose works have shown up at various places in the city. It is an interesting, ongoing story that many would like to solve. I think there have been two large works installed without the knowledge (or consent) [...]
a look at architectural photography, Julius Shulman, and the inability of purely visual information to convey the significance of an architectural experience