I’m sorry the website was down yesterday and today — I forgot to renew the domain douglasanders.com. No disaster or financial shortfall, just an oversight.
But, sadly, the world did not cry out in terror — it would have been nice if there had been some sort of global freak-out. Damn.
Here’s a newspaper article on the Muirhead Farmhouse, (often, erroneously, said to be Wright’s only farmhouse — what’s Talesin if not a working farm?) and now operated as a bed & breakfast in Illinois.
The article is typical for post-holiday filler — which explains why I’m linking to it — but not totally uninteresting.
Sarah said […]
Blair Kamin has written three capsule reviews for Newsday, including one of Frank Lloyd Wright in New York. He calls the book “a well-told tale” and offers good perspective on both his last decade and role the Guggenheim played in making fertile soil for today’s architectural stars.
I’ve seen, but don’t yet own the book (the […]
Louis Sullivan’s Carson, Pirie, Scot & Co. store on State St. in Chicago (now renamed the Sullivan Center with the departure of Carson’s) has a new tenant, an architecture firm.
The architecture firm Gensler will occupy 55,000 square feet on the third floor, and hefty increase from the 40,000 sq. ft. they currently lease in the […]
My first favorite architect, thanks to my 3rd Grade Social Studies textbook section on Brasilia, was Oscar Niemeyer (hey, it was the 1970s).
NIcolai Ourousoff, architecture critic for the ??Times?, has an article on the career the Brazilian architect.
In BrasÃlia, a city that rose out of a savanna in the span of four years, he created […]
Investor’s Business Daily (via Yahoo News) ran a profile of Louis Sullivan Thursday. And it’s not too bad.
Construction of the Auditorium Building, which quickly became a Chicago landmark, would have gone much smoother if Sullivan had separated the tower from the rest of the building, though it would have been less aesthetically pleasing. “But […]
William Allin Storrer has announced that he believes that he has discovered three new Wright-designed homes, all American System-Built bungalows in the Chicago-area.
At the moment, only photos of the three homes have been released, pending further research.
[Confession: I was keeping this under my hat for months, so they wouldn’t sell out before I got my copy. Since the book showed up under the Christmas tree, I will share. Unethical — yeah, kinda, but if you want ethics, offer me a paycheck.]
Daedalus Books is selling the 2000 edition of John Szarkowski’s The […]
If you live in or near Chicago, hie down to the Prairie Avenue Bookshop and check out Auditorium, a facsimile edition of a book published in 1890 just after the opening of the Louis Sullivan masterpiece.
Within weeks after the building’s completion, Garczynski produced a detailed description of the building, with more than 50 photos (many […]