Friedrich St. Florian, the designer of the World War II Memorial in Washington, died. Can you think of a more pointless piece of public architecture? The World War II Memorial.
This is the grave of Samuel McIntire. Born in 1757 in Salem, Massachusetts, McIntire was just a regular guy in his early life, a woodcarver by trade. But he proved.
This is the grave of Joseph Urban. Born in 1872 in Vienna, Urban grew up wealthy and went into architecture. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna,.
This is the grave of Charles Bulfinch. Born in 1763 in Boston, Bulfinch grew up in the late colonial elite. His father was a prominent doctor and his grandfather was.
This building is amazing and an object lesson in how not maintaining our modernist masterpieces are going to lead them to all fall apart very soon. Tokyo’s Nakagin Capsule Tower,.
This is the grave of Gustav Stickley. Born in 1858 in Osceola, Wisconsin, Stickley grew up in a huge German immigrant family, one of 11 children. They were poor. His.
This is the grave of Henry Bacon. Born in Watseka, Illinois in 1866, Bacon grew up well off enough to get to go to the University of Illinois, but he.
The brutalist architect Gottfried Böhm died the other day. The way his Pilgrimage Church dominates the town of Neviges, Germany to me is just an atrocity. But I know there.
