The ORIX Parade of Playhouses benefiting Dallas CASA is 3 days away from officially being over for 2010. This coming Sunday at 4:00, kids will pull out the winning raffle tickets and 17 playhouses … [Read more...]
What is Art?
Art can truly be judged by you, the individual, as far as you yourself are concerned, by only one measure. It is not a static but an energy measure. Do not ask what the art is or ought to be, for this … [Read more...]
Greene & Greene and Modernism: Complete Perfection
Sitting in for me today is David Mathias - a good friend of mine who has a book forthcoming titled: 'Greene & Greene Furniture - Poems of Wood & Light', an examination of the houses and … [Read more...]
Modern Toilet Room
Powder bath rooms generally drive me crazy. Not the ones in my projects (obviously) but the generic ones I see when I go into older homes or the new builder homes of my friends *cringe*. I need to ask … [Read more...]
Dallas and a Calatrava Bridge – we have one
I was driving to an event last week and I saw the new Santiago Calatrava bridge going up just outside downtown Dallas. It has been a long time in coming - ten years. I thought to myself - Dallas … [Read more...]
What’s in a name?
. Peter Bohlin Glenn Murcutt Renzo Piano Samuel Mockbee Michael Graves Fay Jones Philip Johnson Richard Neutra Alvar Aalto Walter Gropius What do these people have in common? Yes they have … [Read more...]