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 will start the process of moving to their new homes. … [Continue reading]
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 is debatable and will inevitably lead to endless … [Continue reading]
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 furniture of Charles and Henry Greene. Needless to say … [Continue reading]
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 you to assume that I am not a design snob and … [Continue reading]
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 really is becoming a great destination location for … [Continue reading]
. 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 all been awarded the AIA Gold Medal "in … [Continue reading]
