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 good at that and started moving into architecture as a young man. He learned the...
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This is the grave of Wallace Neff. Born in 1895 in La Mirada, California, Edwin Wallace Neff grew up super rich. His grandfather was Andrew McNally, i.e., Rand-McNally. His father.
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 a big time slave merchant. Yes, northern fortunes were just as rooted in slavery as...
This is the grave of Mary Colter. Born to a reasonably well-off family in Pittsburgh in 1869, Colter's family moved around a bit when she was a child, first to.
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 father was a stonemason and a farmer and the family was dirt poor. So Stickley...
I love this story so much. It's the most New Gilded Age story possible. “Absolutely stunning” is how the University of California, Santa Barbara, described plans for Munger Hall, a.
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 are people out there who really respect brutalism. So I decided tonight's film would be...
This is the grave of Cass Gilbert. Born in 1859 in Zanesville, Ohio, Gilbert was named for Lewis Cass, one of the truly reprehensible politicians of the antebellum years, a.
I loved Barcelona when I was there 10 years ago and of course Gaudi was a huge part of that. But I had never seen Hiroshi Teshigahara's film about Gaudi's.