The travels of Frank Lloyd Wright’s office for Kaufmann

The travels of Frank Lloyd Wright’s office for Kaufmann

The director of Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1937 iconic house Fallingwater, Lynda Waggoner, recently spoke at the John Adams Institute. Two of our staunch followers, Rick and Marga Donehoo, told me later that they had seen the office that Wright designed in that same year for Fallingwater’s owner, Pittsburgh department store magnate Edgar Kaufmann, in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

Kaufmann used the office until his death in 1955. It is now the only complete, original FLW interior in Europe. But how did the office from Pittsburgh end up in London?   Read the article…

Bustling metropolises of Martin Roemers

Bustling metropolises of Martin Roemers

The movement of trains or a group of cars becomes a colored whoosh and people who sit or stand still for a few seconds longer then become the main characters of the story.

I interviewed the Dutch photographer Martin Roemers about his project which he started in 2007 and finished in 2015. He made a photoserie about street life in bustling metropolises that is now on display in Huis Marseille. This interview was for the blog of the Loeb Fellowship at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard.

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Gebouwen van Goudal zijn net echt

Gebouwen van Goudal zijn net echt

Tracy schreef in het NRC een recensie van de tentoonstelling van Noémie Goudal: The Geometrical Determination of the Sunrise. „Het lijken grote zware gebouwen, terwijl ze in werkelijkheid vederlicht en vergankelijk zijn”. Goudal gebruikt in haar werk collages van bestaande gebouwen. Deze plaatst ze vervolgens in een desolaat landschap om zo de verhoudingen tussen oppervlakte en diepte en ook het artificiële en het werkelijke te testen. Lees de hele recensie van Tracy in het NRC hier.

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Sikkens Prize 2015: interview with architect David Chipperfield

Sikkens Prize 2015: interview with architect David Chipperfield

The 2015 Sikkensprijs was awarded to internationally acclaimed English architect David Chipperfield (1953). His spatial compositions achieve a delicate balance between color, materiality and texture. The jury wrote:

“Chipperfield bases his architecture on the understanding and interpretation of specific contexts. His pursuit of continuity is supported by a thoughtful use of color and materials.”

I had the pleasure to interview him at the award ceremony. You can watch the entire interview below.

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