June 25, 2009
“You see,” writes Frank Lloyd Wright in his 1924 letter to the Ennises, “the final result is going to stand on that hill a hundred years or more. Long after we are all gone, it will be pointed out as the Ennis House and pilgrimages will be made to it by lovers of the beautiful [...]
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June 24, 2009
In an article this week in the Los Angeles Times, architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne discusses the intriguing architectural makeup of Dubai and presents the case for the emirate’s recovery.
Dubai, says Hawthorne, is composed of separate mini cities within a city, each a near-exact architectural replica of another city or development around the world, thus providing [...]
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June 5, 2009
Robert Sonneman, a pioneer of modern lighting, was the host of Lighting by Gregory’s first Designer Night on Thursday, June 4.
Influenced by modernist movements of the 20th Century, Sonneman began designing lighting in the 1960s that combined form and function. Orbiter, which happens to be one of Sonneman’s first designs, is a solid example of [...]
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