In the years following the American Civil War, Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter traveled with her family throughout frontier Minnesota, Colorado and Texas. After her father died, Mary attended the California School of Design in San Fransisco and was hired as an Interior Designer by the Fred Harvey Company in 1901. By 1910 she [...]
These sketches are from personal sketch books of Stanley H. White (1891-1979). They were given to me by his daughter, Jan White. Stanley was a professor of landscape architecture at the University of Illinois from 1922-1959 where he taught Hideo Sasaki, Stuart Dawson, Peter Walker, and Richard Haag among others. He moved his [...]
Stone brings a sense of connection to geologic time, revealing clues to the past. The skillful crafting of stone creates a built environment with patterns and qualities unique to its own place and time with this rich material. The images below share the craftsmanship of Drew Weigle, a stone mason in Durango.
This image highlights basic moves that are repeated through the piece.
In a collaboration between choreographer William Forsythe and Ohio State University’s Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design a web tool was developed that analyzes a fifteen minute dance with a variety of interactive tools. The dance: One Flat Thing, Reproduced, occurs [...]
A long way from the classic doublewide, contemporary prefab structures provide an efficient production process, minimize impacts to site surroundings and allow relocation and reuse.
This structure is a fully demountable, portable racquetball court designed as a kit-of-parts that can be assembled at any venue. The court will travel the United States for the Professional Racquetball Tour and [...]