Afternoon on the sea, Rockwell Kent, 1907 “the windblown ocean plain stretched dark as indigo to a horizon knife-sharp against the golden...

The Architecture of Secession The new-found Union of Austrian Artists sought to push design as a whole toward an idealistic freedom and...

Section of the Beethoven Frieze by Gustav Klimt in the Secession Building. 1902. “To every age its art, to every art its freedom.” –...

Hong Kong in the 1920s After finishing my graduate degree in architecture, I capped three years of study and travel with a three-week...