October 3, 2017
Ronchamp Chapel – Le Corbusier – Architect It used to be […]
April 6, 2016
“You changed my life forever.” A student’s comment at the Cook-Wissahickon School at […]
December 9, 2015
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN TOWER COMPETITION Centennial Tower, 1,000 feet high, was proposed to […]
October 28, 2015
It is a fundamental truth that complex structures always evolve from simpler […]
May 5, 2015
In 1998 on a trip to Spain, I saw Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim […]
April 28, 2015
Although I have had the privilege to know or meet a handful […]
March 18, 2015
In the fall of 2008, Ron and Abby Pete, the then new […]
March 17, 2015
World-renown American architect, Philip Johnson (1906-2005) graduated Harvard with a degree in […]
March 9, 2015
William Faulkner, the great American author from Oxford, Mississippi, is best known […]
December 26, 2014
“ARE YOU NUTS? Going to Turkey . . . now?” That was […]
September 12, 2013
Every morning I receive an email from a company called ArchDaily that […]
August 22, 2013
A few days ago I meandered through the art-packed galleries of the […]
August 17, 2013
My son, Aaron, was in his early thirties when he flew to […]
August 14, 2013
Laurel Hill Cemetery, founded in 1836, sits high above the eastern bank […]
November 9, 2012
Günther Domenig was a little-known but important Austrian architect who died in […]
December 22, 2011
In Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Helena declares, “Love looks not with […]
November 4, 2011
Several weeks ago I went to see the Zaha Hadid exhibit at […]
August 18, 2011
Germantown, Mount Airy, and Chestnut Hill are graced with an abundance of […]