Bernardino Fungai’s The Beloved of Enalus Sacrificed to Poseidon and Spared Recently I visited the museum of Fine Arts in Houston, a...

A honey bee gathering pollen. Honeybees are some of nature’s most efficient and effective architects. Due to their ability to process...

Edinburgh New Town seen from above* When poet Robert Burns moved from his countryside town to Edinburgh in 1786 he found himself in a...

Psyche revived by Cupid’s kiss. What is Love? It cannot be summed into one response. Love is a multitude of moments, of emotions, of...

Palace of Fine Arts by Bernard Maybeck On a recent visit to San Francisco to visit the Fall Antique Fair, a celebration of the 100th...

Electrical Building for the 1893 Columbian Exposition or the Chicago worlds fair It is 1888 and the engaging book, The Last Days of...

Palisades of the Mississippi (c. 1909) by Frederick Oakes Sylvester Sitting on a bucolic limestone bluff in Elsa, Illinois, overlooking...

Potsdam Landscape “At Potsdam, there is the wherewithal to make us happy.” Fredrick the Great from the memoirs of his reader, Henri de...

John Frederick Kensett, Sunset Sky, 1872 As I stepped out of the car onto the deck of a near empty ferry making way across Penobscot Bay,...

“At Potsdam, at Potsdam there is the wherewithal to make us happy.” Fredrick the Great from the memoirs of his reader, Henri de Catt –...

When occupying a sturdy building you are in a world between the walls, protected from the weather and the influence of nature. In...

“Well! Well! Well! This is wonderful. No one told me it was like this!” – Upon arriving in New Mexico Palo Duro Canyon Finding her way to...

Sloping Hills, Jose Arpa y Perea Our city has a long and proud history of artists that help to shape San Antonio’s sense of place...

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...

“La carta de amor” The life of Fernando Ramos was a story of love; a love of home, of his native country, of art, of dance- and, of...

Since the first dawn, we as humans have been drawn to light. We are drawn to fire, sunsets, beautifully lit landscapes, and illuminated...

Church of St. James, pencil & watercolor, 7.25 x 10, Chipping Campden, England As traditional architects, we often look to the work of...