BUILDING MODERN: A CASE STUDY
Who Is Building Our Plans? It’s a question we’re always asking, so from time to time, as we develop an online community to share ideas, tips, and stories about the building process, I’ll be looking for...
View ArticleTransitions: Dogtrots, Duchamp, & Julius Shulman
Beyond the Breezeway Having just attended my younger daughter’s graduation from college, transitions and transitional spaces are on my mind (if you follow this blog you will not be surprised…). The...
View ArticleIce Cube’s Take on the Eames House, etc.
Architectural Raps and Other Design Gifts It’s not every day that you hear a rapper talk about architecture, let alone a mid-century modern design icon like the Eames house in Pacific Palisades,...
View Article“Mad Men” and Mid-Century Modernity at LACMA
Stereos and Studebakers The start of Mad Men‘s fifth season this week on cable TV is fortuitous. Though the series spawned a new appreciation for slick Madison Avenue Modernism of the early 1960s — not...
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