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 21, 2016 | Front Page
What would Wall Street be without its massive charging bull? Probably just another New York City street among the concrete canyon of gray skyscrapers. Michael Graves’s postmodernist Portland building stands out as a strong recognizable symbol in that city...
by Kyle Pierson | Jan 27, 2016 | Art
Last summer while I was traveling in the Hudson Valley, NY and poking around in antique shops, I stumbled upon this 1986 tear-out book of postcards by Michael Langenstein. The publisher’s (Dover) note explains that the postcards combine world famous...
by Kyle Pierson | Jan 12, 2016 | Florida
The bells pealing on New Year’s eve sounded a death knell for two American architectural icons of the 20th Century. The National Trust for Historic Preservation published the news on their website even before the New Year. The construction techniques of...
by Kyle Pierson | Sep 10, 2015 | Travel
In my previous post, I focused on the grounds surrounding Manitoga, Russel Wright’s garden. In this post, I’m taking you inside his house. Russel Wright (1904-1976) believed so strongly that Americans should find their own cultural identity through...
