Building Stories

November 15, 2006

No, it’s not the name of a Talking Heads album or song or…book. Building Stories will be the next graphic …

1893 Columbian Exposition Monograph

July 3, 2006

At a flea market this weekend, I found an original 1894 monograph of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. Most American …

June 20, 2006

I came across this passage in Ian McEwan’s Saturday, and thought it an especially optimistic and eloquent outlook on the …

January 10, 2006

Focusing on emerging practices with professional, but not necessarily national, connections to the country, British Built is the sequel to …

August 16, 2005

From the mountains of Stuttgart to the roofs of the Netherlands to the streets of Manhattan, critics Alanna Stang and …

May 6, 2005

This past Monday, my neighborhood bookstore hosted a lecture by new Orleans born architect Azby Brown. Brown now resides in …