Picturing Old Town Pocatello Nov 2, 2009
POCATELLO -- Local artist Lori Skoumal Reeves has been asked to transfer some of downtown Pocatello's most intriguing past and present architecture to canvas ... "We just really liked to see the architecture of Old Town," Reeves said ... "It's good for the people of Pocatello to really be aware of the beauty of the architecture they have right here in their town and to observe it." Reeves said Donyes is interested in gathering a mix of Old Town's architecture throughout different eras. (Pocatello Idaho State Journal, ID)
Once they were bankers Nov 2, 2009
The study of architecture is the study of history, art and engineering. Perched above the doorway from Pruett Street is a high ledge rimed by a rail. (Paragould Daily Press, AR)
Rome: one drugstore away from true greatness Nov 1, 2009
It turns out that for all Rome has to offer - millennia of world-shaping history, masterpieces of art and architecture, mouthwatering meals intended to last hours, and more politicians in prison than anywhere else outside Louisiana - it doesn't have a single pad of writing paper. Didn't these people invent writing paper or something. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
Archive Architecture: Setting the Spin in Stone Nov 1, 2009
Sunday, November 1, 2009. By FRED A. BERNSTEIN Published: Thursday, June 10, 2004. (Yahoo News -- Architecture)
Taking shape Nov 1, 2009
"She was sight-seeing, and in her pursuits she was walking down a lot of empty streets, taking in the blocky communist architecture by herself. The juxtaposition of Berlin itself and Berlin's people was like flint on steel for her."After returning home, I began to obsess over the idea of oppression, the isolated form in a composition, two forms struggling in a composition, how they related to each other, a feeling of aloneness or struggle or even anger," she said. "I had never painted these... (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum, Pune - I... Nov 1, 2009
To understand the historical and cultural traditions of India, there is a library of relevant books on art, history, architecture, etc. There is a conservation laboratory too with the most modern equipments to preserve the collection in the museum. (Suite101.com)
Architect brings transparency to W Hotel, Cambridge library Nov 1, 2009
Both messages are clear in the architecture of these buildings ... Minor masterpiece The Cambridge library is one of the best recent pieces of architecture in the Boston area ... And it s one of the best pieces of old architecture, too, because Rawn s glassy new library stands beside the original Cambridge library of 1888, a minor masterpiece by architects Van Brunt and Howe that s newly renovated by Ann Beha and Associates of Boston. (Boston Globe)
Editorial: Georgia Theatre deserves its shot for a comeback Nov 1, 2009
So, rebuilding the theater, whose exterior will remain unchanged with the exception of the addition of a rooftop garden, will leave in place some of the real bricks-and-mortar history of this town - not just for the locals and tourists interested in the city's once and future music scene, but for the many people in town who remember going to movies there and who otherwise recognize and remember it as a local landmark and an example of Art Deco architecture. Beyond that historical perspective,... (Athens Banner-Herald)
Georgia Theatre owner offers a tour, makes... Nov 1, 2009
It was originally was built in the ornate Romanesque style but the facade later was renovated into its current trademark Art Deco architecture. The Athens-Clarke Historic Preservation Commission - an appointed board that oversees development in historic neighborhoods like downtown - signed off last week on Greene's plans to reconstruct the theatre. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Keeping ahead of the game Nov 1, 2009
More than 800 projects vied for this year's National Architecture Awards. If you're heading to Flemington or Randwick for the Melbourne Cup day meeting, here's your survival guide. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Keeping ahead of the game Nov 1, 2009
More than 800 projects vied for this year's National Architecture Awards. If you're heading to Flemington or Randwick for the Melbourne Cup day meeting, here's your survival guide. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Keeping ahead of the game Nov 1, 2009
More than 800 projects vied for this year's National Architecture Awards. If you're heading to Flemington or Randwick for the Melbourne Cup day meeting, here's your survival guide. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
LW Art center lands photo exhibit exclusive Nov 1, 2009
Historic Florida Architecture and American Landscape Photography Exhibit by Niki & Clyde Butcher will open on Nov. 5 at 5 pm ... Premiering by her husband s side, Niki Butcher is debuting more than a dozen stunning hand-colored black and white photographs of Florida architecture using a technique popular in the 1920s and 30s before the advent of color photography ... Thirty years ago, she began her work while watching a dignified old Conch home torn down and replaced by a sterile building, and... (Lake Wales News, FL)
Al Yankovic is still 'Weird' Oct 31, 2009
Eventually, Yankovic decided to give music a full-time shot, despite architecture studies at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. It's been mostly success since then. (CNN)
Practical Analysis: Time To Embrace The Netbook Oct 31, 2009
We can no longer count on end users having a single operating system, a predictable screen size and security posture, or even a single-processor architecture. But it's also an exciting prospect. (TechWeb)
Google Chrome: The Fast Browser With Slow Adoption Oct 31, 2009
"Everything [in the Chrome browser], from the new Javascript engine to its multiprocess architecture, is designed with heavier, more intensive Web apps in mind," Rakowski said. While this is a valid effort, the average user cares or understands little about browser speed and performance, so this is unlikely to draw many new users. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Lawrence Halprin, 93, iconic landscape architect Oct 30, 2009
NEW YORK - Lawrence Halprin, the tribal elder of American landscape architecture, died Sunday at his home in Kentfield, Calif ... As postwar America sprouted suburban malls, urban parks, corporate compounds, and federal urban renewal projects, Mr. Halprin helped forge a new, sharper style of landscape architecture, often as dependent on concrete as on vegetation ... It is modern in its vocabulary, an abstraction based on the natural world, a pattern based on Halprin s observations of the way... (Boston Globe)
Feltus | Hawkins Design brings architects eye to interior design Oct 30, 2009
Although it s not unusual for an architecture firm to have interior designers on staff, it is less common for a firm with a main identity in interior design to have an architect on staff, said Tom Negri, general manager at in Nashville. Negri said the firm brought organization, sensitivity and timeliness to recent two recent interior projects for the hotel. (Nashville Business Journal, TN)
Metro plans redesign of Jefferson Street Oct 30, 2009
The designs were submitted by George s landscape architecture firm Edge, which won a competitive bid process through Metro last month to be the project s design consultant. The master plan details new landscaping, directional signage and the development of a gathering place under the Jefferson Street I-40 underpass called Heritage Park. (Nashville Business Journal, TN)
Cup hopeful hot property Oct 30, 2009
In conjunction with designer Ruth Lane Poole Mrs Bruce played an active role in architecture and furnishing of the Lodge, including requesting an extension to the servants' quarters, which was granted, and requesting a dairy cow be kept on the grounds, which was refused. Her decorating preferences and taste for fresh milk aside, knowledge about the woman born Ethel Dunlop Anderson remains sketchy. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Local Artisans Participate in Annual Handcrafters Show Oct 30, 2009
He has always been interested in wildlife, history and architecture. This is evident in his pencil drawings of animals and historic buildings, many of which are local scenes. (South County Chronicle, VA)
Dan Graham: Beyond opens Saturday, Student Open House, and more Oct 30, 2009
Learn more about this intriguing artist through a series of activities related to architecture, rock and roll, and the passage of time. November 7. (AbsoluteArts.com)
NAi Booksellers newsletter October 2009 Oct 30, 2009
From 29 October through 1 November 2009 the takes place: the worlds largest architecture film festival ... Dutch Design whether design pur sang, fashion design, graphic design or architecture has over recent years been winning acclaim the world over ... Architecture of Consequence. (AbsoluteArts.com)
This Week @ Farmlab Salons, Exhibitions, Performances, News Oct 30, 2009
Examples of upcoming Public Salons include: Environment, Art and Science in Mexico and Figure, Field, and Squid: The Construction of Space in Bacon s Painting and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe s Architecture. Performances + Classes + Events. (AbsoluteArts.com)
YALE NEWS: Symposium at Yale Looks at Everyday Things Through Architectural Prism Oct 30, 2009
Constructed Objects: Design by Architects in the 20th Century, a symposium taking place November 12 13 at Yale School of Architecture, will explore ways in which architecture and design infuse and inform the everyday objects we use ... Featured guests at the symposium will be Nan Swid and Addie Powell, founders of the pioneering firm, Swid Powell, which put high-end architecture on the dinner table by inventively marketing housewares by such celebrity designers as Richard Meier, Charles... (AbsoluteArts.com)
e v+ a 2010 curator opens The Lives of Spaces tonight at LSAD Oct 30, 2009
Elizabeth Bonde Hatz is an architect, holder of an AA Diploma/ SAR/MSA, and Professor of Architecture at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. She has also been teaching at SAUL, School of Architecture, University of Limerick, since its establishment in 2006 ... As the head of the Swedish Association of Architects from 1993 to 1994, Hatz co-founded Fargfabriken, the internationally renowned scene for Art and Architecture in Stockholm, and a satellite venue in. (AbsoluteArts.com)
YALE NEWS: National Trust for Historic Preservation Gives Highest Award to Vincent J. Scully Oct 30, 2009
Considered one of the most important interpreters of art and architecture of our times, Scully has inspired generations of students for more than 60 years, and Yale alumni often cite Scully s lecture courses on the history of art and architecture as their most profound academic experience ... In creating a professorship at the Yale School of Architecture, Pritzker Prize laureate Sir Norman Foster recently cited the incredible impact Scully had on his career ... More than 65 years later, Stern,... (AbsoluteArts.com)
SU enacts election reforms Oct 30, 2009
The reasoning behind this change is to allow students from smaller schools, such as art and architecture, which have a harder time filling seats in SU, to fill seats in both SU and their school councils. Members of Treasury committees who are not Treasury representatives will also be defined as SU officers. (Washington University Student Life, MO)
SAMS_seminar tries PechaKucha Night in Kansas City Oct 30, 2009
"We got a chance to see how practitioners go about creating new things, whether it's art or it's furniture or architecture," he said. "We read about the theory behind the design and the theory behind creativity, and it was interesting to see how they articulate it in their approach.". (Leavenworth Lamp, KS)
Design Research is back - as an installation Oct 29, 2009
A longtime associate of Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius and chairman of the architecture department at Harvard s Graduate School of Design, Ben Thompson was perhaps best known locally as the creator of Faneuil Hall Marketplace ... Architecture wasn t an end in itself for him. (Boston Globe)
Kevin Yates opening Oct 29, 2009
Kevin Yates' newest exhibition at the gallery features a series of new cast bronze and painted wood sculptures of vernacular architecture in miniature. Along the gallery walls in silent intervals, weathered clapboard dwellings sit along an invisible horizon line, creating a suburban landscape caught in quiet repose. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Nic hosts 'Arteducology' symposium Oct 29, 2009
Combine art, architecture and education ... The final product: Arteducology -- a sustainable symposium at the Nicolaysen Art Museum that will explore how art, architecture, education, ecology and design can combine to shape the future ... "We came together to really talk about some of the pertinent issues of today, including the health of our community, art in our community, how and why art and architecture matter.". (Casper Star-Tribune, WY)
Explore Savannahs squares, parks and homes Oct 29, 2009
It dates to 1820 and is considered one of the best examples of Federal architecture in the area, with original plasterwork, a cantilevered staircase, a large collection of Davenport china and period furniture. Another popular house for tourists is the Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace, where the founder of the Girl Scouts grew up. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Saffronart Presents 'Hanut Singh' Oct 29, 2009
With a distinctive design philosophy that fuses Mughal with Art Deco, Art Nouveau with architecture, and heirlooms with unusual contemporary design elements, his pieces represent a viewpoint that is fresh and dynamic. Celebrated in such leading publication as Vogue, Forbes and Time, his jewels are coveted by women worldwide, including celebrities like Mary Kate Olsen, Penelope Cruz and Rebecca Romijin. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Opinion: Don't believe your eyes Oct 28, 2009
from the science of human and bee perception, to the art of translating images into music, to the design of a glass windmill for primary schools, to the creation of the "My School" educational program (a framework for teaching and architecture that directly supports creativity, community choice and compassion), even to giving a talk at TED.. By providing relevant, tangible and accessible frameworks for others to take part in the process of discovery, I hope -- in a very modest way -- that my... (CNN)
Savannah Wasn't Planned to Be Pleasant Oct 28, 2009
It dates to 1820 and is considered one of the best examples of Federal architecture in the area, with original plasterwork, a cantilevered staircase, a large collection of Davenport china and period furniture ... Savannah's tours include those devoted to the Civil War, art, architecture, African-American heritage, gardens, and of course ghosts, with a choice of transportation from limos, trolleys and buses, to horse-drawn carriages and boats along the waterway. (Fox News)
Media Release - Price Tower Arts Center Curator Joins Conservancy Board Oct 28, 2009
Joining the Board of Directors is a wonderful opportunity to expand upon the preservation and advocacy of Frank Lloyd Wright s architecture that we have done at Price Tower Arts Center ... Membership is open to anyone interested in Wright, including architects, scholars, preservationists, architecture buffs, artisans and, especially, Wright building owners ... He brings a wide range of knowledge of Wright and his architecture through his academic studies, archival research, contributed essays,... (AbsoluteArts.com)
Arboretum boardwalk voted gift Oct 28, 2009
"The boardwalk will serve as a 'front door' for pedestrians entering the arboretum and contribute significantly to the arboretum's mission of scholarship, research and education of the natural landscape," said Mike Lampariello (senior-landscape architecture), senior class gift committee overall chairman. University Park Undergraduate Association President Gavin Keirans said he thinks the senior class chose well. (Daily Collegian, PA)
Artists Plan to Encase Detroit Home in Ice Oct 28, 2009
" One deteriorating Detroit neighborhood became the outdoor art gallery for Tyree Guyton, whose more than two-decade-old Heidelberg Project has drawn international attention. Guyton transformed the houses, streets and lots with his colorful polka-dot art and collections of stuffed animals, shoes and old appliances. More recently, a group calling itself Object Orange painted the shells of crumbling Detroit buildings bright orange to call attention to the city's blight and decay. Radune developed... (CBS News)
Beer: Boston meets Bavaria Oct 27, 2009
Like architecture and the ballet, beer brewing is an art form enhanced by wedding the wisdom of the Old World to the nimbleness of the New. Boston Beer Company s recent announcement that it is teaming up with Weihenstephan Brewery - begun by Benedictine monks in 11th-century Bavaria and a fierce guardian of German beer-making rules - is hence particularly thirst-quenching. (Boston Globe)
Wiltshire Saving New York's Skyline Oct 27, 2009
As a boy with Autism, Stephen Wiltshire was shy until he discovered a amazing ability to draw detailed architecture just from memory. Mark Phillips reports. (CBS News -- Early Show)
Archive Architecture: Setting the Spin in Stone Oct 27, 2009
Tuesday, October 27, 2009. By FRED A. BERNSTEIN Published: Thursday, June 10, 2004. (Yahoo News -- Architecture)
Scientists use world's fastest supercomputer to model origins of the unseen universe Oct 27, 2009
The Roadrunner Universe model relies on a hierarchical grid/particle algorithm that best matches the physical aspects of the simulation to the hybrid architecture of Roadrunner. Habib and his team wrote an entirely new computer code that aggressively exploits Roadrunner's hybrid architecture and makes full use of the PowerXCell 8i computational accelerators. (EurekAlert!)
Performa 09: Join Us On Opening Night! Oct 27, 2009
The three-week festival will showcase new work by more than 100 of the most exciting artists working today, in an innovative program breaking down the boundaries between visual art, music, dance, poetry, fashion, architecture, graphic design, and the culinary arts. Presented in collaboration with a consortium of more than 40 arts institutions and 40 curators, as well as a network of 75 public spaces and private venues across the city, Performa 09 will ignite New York City with energy and ideas,... (AbsoluteArts.com)
Suzanne Tucker's old love of antiques Oct 26, 2009
Decades of books and magazines, spanning floor to ceiling, are categorized by subject (Architecture and Design; Garden and Landscape; Materials) and subcategorized by style (French; Italian; American; General) ... "It pulled together everything I loved - architecture, furnishings, decorative arts." ... Decades of books and magazines, spanning floor to ceiling, are categorized by subject (Architecture and. (San Francisco Chronicle)
New York's Guggenheim Still Turns Heads Oct 26, 2009
"New York is usually a follower, not a leader, in stuff like this," said Paul Goldberger, an architecture critic for "The New Yorker." "And suddenly, New York has the most radical building in the world.". Back then, the New York Times called it a "war between architecture and painting in which both came out badly maimed." ... The building says that "art and architecture can enter into a dialogue with each other and they can kind of get into the ring and joust with each other and it doesn't mean... (CBS News)
Brussels: Europe's great secret Oct 25, 2009
A trade boom 500 years ago left this city with striking art and stately architecture. And it's once again a trade and cultural center of Europe. (CNN -- International)
SCI-Arcs Downtown Future Uncertain Oct 25, 2009
The Southern California Institute of Architecture has leased a 102-year-old former train depot in the Arts District for almost 10 years ... Published: Friday, October 23, 2009 12:14 PM PDT DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - The Southern California Institute of Architecture, which catalyzed the commercial and residential revitalization of the Arts District when it moved to the neighborhood in 2000, is considering ditching its current campus. (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
Frankfurt: Seedy to sublime Oct 25, 2009
Nine museums in striking buildings line the Main River -- including museums on architecture, film, world cultures, and the great European masters. Many of the city's historic sights are clustered around Romerberg, the main square. (CNN -- International)
Mass appeal in the Berkshires Oct 24, 2009
The author had a passion for architecture and landscaping, and she designed the house and its three acres of gardens. Wharton was also fascinated with the supernatural -- she wrote ghost stories on the side -- and legend has it that her house is haunted. (CNN)
Changes 'right thing to do' Oct 24, 2009
A graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Goldman went to school for interior design and architecture. She worked for her father's construction company for five years. (The Palm Beach Post)
$10.9 million Arcadia farmhouse for sale Oct 24, 2009
"It's going to take someone like my wife and myself that specifically like that type of architecture," said Lo Piccolo, who paid $75,000 for his 5-acre property in the late 1960s. Prices have fallen, but at one point, teardown lots were selling for close to $1 million per acre, especially in desirable locations like Exeter Boulevard, one of the Valley's prized addresses. (AZCentral -- Home)
Fate of Cave Creek Walmart supercenter hangs in balance Oct 23, 2009
It would have roots in modernist architecture and is "site specific to Cave Creek," according to the company's General Plan amendment filing. The company has yet to file a detailed site plan with Cave Creek. (AZCentral -- News)
Gateway project moving forward Oct 23, 2009
The project is designed by MCA Architecture Planning Interiors and is described as a European style urban village near a proposed transit center in the town of Windsor. When complete, the project will mark the Northern entrance to the downtown area and will include a roundabout to slow traffic as it enters the area. (Sebastopol Sonoma West Publishing, CA)
Mikulski making his mark on art scene Oct 23, 2009
Though he cultivated his artistic passion while earning a Master's in Architecture from Norwich University in Vermont, he didn't paint in college ... "I'm obsessed with art. I thought architecture was a bit too technical and I wanted to do something that was a little bit freer and more expressive." When Mikulski opened up his first studio, it was love at first stroke. (Farmington Valley Post, CT)
Leaders weigh in on gift options Oct 23, 2009
"If he had a better understanding of culture and public art, he would know it is more than a log," Lampariello (senior-landscape architecture) said. In retrospect, Keirans said the tweet was meant to be a joke. (Daily Collegian, PA)
Burchfield art gains exposure Oct 23, 2009
It certainly fits with our line of architecture books and other art works. The company has already rolled our gift wrap with Burchfield s artwork and a boxed set of gift cards with four separate Burchfield designs. (Buffalo Business First, NY)
Q AND A: US F1's Chad Hurley Oct 22, 2009
It was extremely expensive to store and serve this content, but when we were involved on the front lines, we were able to build very efficient architecture and do it at the fraction of the cost of what the industry was speculating about our cost. I think we'll have the same opportunity with US F1 to be superefficient, do things very cost effectively and hopefully be extremely competitive at the same time. (USA Today -- Sports)
CAIN SCHULTE GALLERY - SF|BERLIN - upcoming Openings Oct 22, 2009
This exhibition will be on view at Sagan Piechota Architecture, at 315 Linden Street in San Francisco, from October 21 until December 5, 2009 ... Artist reception: Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 6:00 - 8:00pmAt Sagan Piechota Architecture, 315 Linden street (@ Octavia). (AbsoluteArts.com)
SonicSwap Integrates Yahoo! Music Into its Video Programming Oct 22, 2009
Next, SonicSwaps unique technology and architecture uses specialized Flash players that search and match video requests from the playlists on the users local machine. The players search both the Yahoo. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Kiel Johnson at Mark Moore Gallery Oct 22, 2009
Johnson is in a number of public collections, including the Creative Artist Agency (Beverly Hills, CA) and Todd Oldham (New York, NY), and has exhibited in venues throughout the United States, such as the Architecture and Design Museum (Los Angeles, CA). Johnson will be featured in PULSE Miami Contemporary Art Fair this December with Davidson Contemporary (NY), with whom he will also exhibit with in the Fall of 2010. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Nanny state helps to drown us in our own stupidity Oct 22, 2009
Perhaps the mass decline of common sense is the inevitable result of what Susan Greenfield, a British neuroscientist, says is the altered brain architecture of a couple of generations of people reared on technology rather than real-life experience. If common sense is the accumulation of millions of real world experiences and the amalgamated sensory input from our environment, then no wonder people habituated to a two-dimensional virtual world without physical consequences seem increasingly to be... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
* Taiwanese tapestry Oct 21, 2009
Mountains and trees resembling those found in Chinese landscape painting (se) punctuate the canvas along with Japanese architecture, temples, modern furniture and designer bags. The Japanese architecture, Chinese landscape painting, comic book figures and Western consumer items, unsystematically arranged on a canvas that includes an archeological find, underscore Lees point that a conglomeration of influences shaped Taiwans cultural identity, and each influence can only be understood in... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
In Exhibit, Louis XIV Makes Great Return Oct 21, 2009
A great champion of music, architecture and gardening - as evidenced by the gilded Versailles palace and its manicured lawns - the Sun King also dabbled in theater, tapestries, gemstones and illuminated manuscripts. The show's more than 300 pieces reflect those varied interests. (CBS News)
* Columbus Day is not an occasion to be proud Oct 21, 2009
Before the arrival of Europeans, the Pueblo natives of what is now the southwestern US had already developed a highly complex social organization with advanced architecture, art and culture, and they did not have such a backward and unequal class system as was dominant in Europe at the time. The highly civilized Indigenous people repeatedly resisted the white colonists hegemonic and backward rule. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
