Camp Waldemar Postcard Most of us can remember that first time we shipped our kids off to summer camp. The fear of losing oversight of...

October Sky Tom Curry stands in a large room packed so tightly one can only slight maneuver through the clutter. Easels, canvases,...

When you climb into the driver seat of a Porsche 356 from the early 1960’s, you are not greeted by the smell of supple leather or the...

Camden from Mount Battie We stood at the top of Mt. Battie overlooking a vast view over the islands of Penobscot Bay and the small Harbor...

Among the rolling blackouts in Havana, there are two things that are always available to anyone- cigars and rum. The rest is up to...

Havana street scene The streets at 8am are bustling- old cars and trucks rumble and honk, little yellow rickshaws hustle by as mothers...

As spring blossoms and the days warm, many of us are called away to that American right of passage, college graduation. As this day...

America had its own battle with “shabby Chic”. Since our independence, the old world began to wane and America’s influence grew; and with...

The Architect’s Dream On recent travels to Greece and Egypt it became grossly apparent to me that we have lost a quality to our buildings...

watercolor of Giza by David Roberts, R.A. The thin membrane of darkness belied the turbulence that lay beneath as we drifted down the...

I arrived at the Raleigh Hotel late in the morning, mist rising off the dense tropical vegetation after a brief morning rain shower. The...

by Whitney Wolf Walking through the woods, the sound coming off my snowshoes echoes through the snow-laden trees as a cacophony of sound...

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

The original Administration Building at Longhorn Cavern As varied as the landscape in Texas can be, a unique architectural expression...

On the surface, sustainability with regards to building appears to be a very straight forward subject; if a building is built of...

In 1943 Ayn Rand wrote the novel Fountainhead, the story of Howard Rourk, the disillusioned architect struggling to make a living...

Richard Jackson’s “Bad Dog” as a commentary on bad architecture – a message anyone can understand In 1857 a small group of architects got...

I was on a recent trip to a small island in the West Indies to investigate a site for a new project along with an interior designer and...

-Part 3- The following morning we struck out east to Dolores Hidalgo. A simple town of no aesthetic appeal, sitting out on the barren...

-Part 2- I awoke with a soft pillow under-head, but the smoke from my breath reminded me of the altitude of our Mexican little hamlet,...