by Marisa | Apr 10, 2020 | Architectural Features, Art
Photo Courtesy of Heinz Bunse (CC) You’re likely reading this from your living room as you shelter-in-place to help decrease the spread of COVID-19. First of all, thank you for doing your part to flatten the curve! Secondly, by this point, you’ve run...
by Marisa | Apr 7, 2020 | Architectural Features, Atomic Living, Mid Century Modern, Places
Photo Courtesy of Thomas Hawk (CC) Pietro Belluschi is our city’s most acclaimed and accomplished architect as well as one of the great American modernists of the 20th century. Over the course of his career, Belluschi participated in the design of more than 1,000...
by Marisa | Mar 31, 2020 | Architectural Features, Atomic Living, Mid Century Modern
Picture sourced from Schemata Workshop The word “utopia” stems from the Greek ou-topos, meaning “no place”, but at the same time, it also refers to eu-topos, “a good place.” It was first coined by Thomas Moore in 1516, which was used to describe a fictional island...
by Marisa | Mar 26, 2020 | Uncategorized
Photo Courtesy of Brian Libby (CC) The Pacific Northwest was a veritable hotbed of midcentury design in the 20th century. Architects, sculptors and artists alike left their mark not only on the region but on the world of design. And you may not know it, but...
by Marisa | Mar 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
“Cover Picture courtesy of The Cultural Landscape Foundation” Thomas Dolliver Church, also known by Tommy, was a renowned and innovative 20th-century landscape architect. He is nationally recognized as one of the pioneer landscape designers of Modernism in...
