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...
Paul Rudolph
Sliding glass doors created the outdoor room
This picture of a screened back porch says, “Lazy summer afternoon.” Lucky me! It’s the view from my office chair. Admit it. When you look at the picture to the left,...
Paul Rudolph didn’t stand a chance against Orange County
Update: This Paul Rudolph masterpiece was demolished despite a petition signed by preservationists from around the world. Bloomberg City Lab On June 29th the New...
How an architect introduced the term “lifestyle” to marketing
Image by Yoichi Aihara from Pixabay In 1950, if you lived outside of New York, Chicago, or Boston before the age of Amazon.com, touching the newest most Modern designs...
Kyle Pierson
Florida writer living in
the Pacific Northwest
Tags
Modernism
NYC
Jane Jacobs
culture
Sustainable architecture
Parks
St. Petersburg
Russel Wright
Paul Rudolph
Minoru Yamasaki
Landmark
FL
architect
Ferguson
art
Florida
Gehry
Shigeru Ban
Elie and Eero Saarien
Garden
John. M. Johansen
Brutalism
Rem Koolhaas
Poetry
Architecture
CCTV
China
experimental
Pruitt-Igoe
Seattle
Public Library
Alexandra Lange
WWII
AIA Awards
starchitect
Gropius
Photography
Frank Lloyd Wright
gentrification
Iconic
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.