by Kyle Pierson | Mar 30, 2015 | FEED
If you have a “Beth, the builder,” introduce her to Julia Morgan, the almost anonymous designer of the Hearst Castle (aka San Simeon), the Gothic setting for the movie Citizen Kane. (Rosebud!). Morgan began the project in 1919 and spent 23...
by Kyle Pierson | Jan 27, 2015 | FEED
Natural disasters strike with such increasing frequency it could become a segment on the nightly news. So, Conrad Newel says it’s about time the Prizker Prize honor an architect whose mission is a humanitarian one. Newel, a critic who writes a blog, Notes on Becoming...
by Kyle Pierson | Jan 12, 2015 | FEED
John. M. Johansen, the architect who built the The Orlando Public Library in 1966, must be singing heavenly praises that this building still stands. So far, the library has been a stalwart in the face of the trend to tear down Modernism — and especially its...
