NOTE: This post has been extremely popular in recent days. So you may also want to view a post called Studio Envy, here. The Tiny House movement has made it possible for many artists to find free-standing space right on their own property. True, not everyone has the […]
These are Frank Lloyd Wright’s drawings and plans, from the files of architect W. Kelly Oliver, a protégé of the famed American innovator. They’re up for sale at Heritage Auctions, including the presentation drawings of the Kalita Humphreys Theater in Dallas (above), commissioned in 1954 and completed in […]
Sonya Blesofsky’s installations bring attention to the human histories and architectural backgrounds of the spaces where she exhibits. She finds original building details (windows, pieces of construction material) and assembles them to represent what once was. The research she does is fascinating.
Amsterdam-based artist Carolien Wissing’s architectural paintings feature sober, color palettes of abandoned buildings. Wissing “finds beauty in the urban
Thirty years of papers, models, sketches and other material from the work files of world-renowned architect Frank Gehry have been acquired by The Getty Research Institute, part purchase and part gift. If you live in Toronto, you’ve seen the Canadian-born, LA-based architect’s work, notably in his renovation of […]
KANVA, the Montreal firm behind this innovative public installation, has just been awarded the 2015 Emerging Architectural Practice Award by the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada.
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