For architecture students in the late 1970s and early 1980s, late night studio sessions often revolved around two worries: the death of Main Street, and the death of public space. The first thing already happened. We’ve come through it and out the other side where Read More …
So far, from daily interactions in a new town planned meticulously to be the very, very best of live-work-play, the following observations are made: A boy about two-and-a-half, crying, with his father crouched in front of him, their noses inches away. Dad was exhorting his Read More …
About an hour outside of Orlando, past derelict mom-and-pop convenience stores, warehouses, and modest homes wrung out by the hands of time, sits the largest single-site collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture in the world. Florida Southern College’s campus in Lakeland is host to the Read More …
The Davis Park Motel (now Faith Arts Village, or FAVO) was built in 1957. It was referred to as roadside modernism or Googie architecture. Googie was the name of a coffee shop that Los Angeles architect John Lautner designed. His designs often had an element Read More …
Fall—the air is a little bit lighter than it has been. Should we thank Hurricane Matthew for the change of season? It’s as if it spun by and popped the bubble of heat and moisture that had been weighing us down. As we quickly recover Read More …
A few weeks ago I was driving around and noticed fresh destruction. As much as this appeals to my punk rock mentality of breaking bottles against trees in the middle of the woods? A building that once was, is no longer. For the life of Read More …
“Fly. And maintain your spirituality your way, young man.” – Mother, Athena Lark Two spaces that shaped the beginnings of my positionality as a child: The tabby slave house at the Kingsley Plantation, and the southern Baptist church I went to upon my arrival Read More …
I didn’t know what soul was until I heard an Otis Redding riff. As if he was baptized by the 3rd use of grease, his grandmamma collected in empty Folger tins. “I learned to see freedom as always and intimately linked to the issue Read More …
The Knowles Memorial Chapel, completed in 1932, is the design of architect Ralph Adams Cram. It was inducted into the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. Cram, who designed more than 75 churches and cathedrals, took special care in this project. Read More …
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