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. These spiraling...
Octagon
Kyle Pierson
Florida writer living in
the Pacific Northwest
Tags
starchitect
Gehry
Sustainable architecture
WWII
Jane Jacobs
CCTV
Landmark
gentrification
John. M. Johansen
China
experimental
Minoru Yamasaki
St. Petersburg
Brutalism
Ferguson
Photography
Parks
Russel Wright
Rem Koolhaas
NYC
Alexandra Lange
art
Gropius
Shigeru Ban
Florida
Garden
Architecture
Iconic
Modernism
Paul Rudolph
Seattle
Elie and Eero Saarien
Frank Lloyd Wright
FL
AIA Awards
Pruitt-Igoe
culture
architect
Public Library
Poetry
Kyle Pierson
I never expected to leave the beach, palm trees, and glorious sunsets of Florida. Seriously! I even have a master’s degree in Florida Studies. So, my move to Washington, the Evergreen State, had to be from a powerful pull. It was; in 2020, my husband Dave and I became grandparents to twin grandsons, and their brother who was born in 2022. Grandparenting adds a new busy dimension to our lives and readers might assume my interest in Florida nature and architecture has faded. But I’m curious about those things here in the PNW too. I’m looking forward to learning like a kid again and having three little guys join me on my explorations!
You’ll find my writings about Florida, North Carolina, and Washington here, along with a new tab, poetry and maybe some drawings. So the journey continues. You’re welcome to come along.