by Kyle Pierson | Aug 10, 2020 | Travel
I grew up in Buffalo and I didn’t know until I read this post from architectural writer Alexandra Lange that I grew up in an architectural mecca. Lange’s article drove me to rediscover my home town. As a native Buffalonian and garden lover, I was surprised...
by Kyle Pierson | Mar 22, 2019 | Architecture, Front Page
One of my favorite parts of the 1960s TV show The Jetsons was George Jetson’s chair and all the push button appliances in Jane’s kitchen. Of course, as a kid, I didn’t appreciate that George’s chair was based on Arne Jacobsen’s 1958 Egg...
by Kyle Pierson | Jul 25, 2018 | Travel
The winding staircase pictured above suggests it leads to the heavens, but it wasn’t designed to reach the stars; actually, it is a stairway to Utopia. It’s a beautiful example of why I like architecture. Architects have inventive ideas about how to rearrange space....
by Kyle Pierson | Mar 31, 2017 | Travel
I expected to make the 30-foot climb to reach New York City’s High Line elevated railroad-turned-garden. It wasn’t the altitude that took my breath away; it was encountering the white backside of a sleepwalker. Stumbling away from me, hands outstretched...
by Kyle Pierson | May 11, 2016 | Architecture
Women architects have been sidelined from history for too long. Take Ida Annah Ryan, for instance. Does this name ring a bell? I didn’t think it would. She was the first woman to graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the first American...
