jun 10th, 2016 | Architectuur, Artikelen, Publicaties
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…
jan 13th, 2015 | Artikelen, Landschap, Publicaties, Stad, Water
I interviewed urban planning professor and author of ‘Emerald Cities’ Joan Fitzgerald for the John Adams Institute. Given the lack of national policy on climate change, cities have stepped into vacuum and are developing strategies of their own. Good for the climate, good for the economy, says urban planning professor Joan Fitzgerald.
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apr 2nd, 2012 | Artikelen, Events, Publicaties
The John Adams Institute organized an evening with the biographer of Steve Jobs, the American journalist and writer Walter Isaacson. I was invited as moderator. It was an exciting event about one of the most remarkable and influential figures of our time, a man on the cusp of creativity and technology. Read my introduction below and watch the video here. Read the article…
jul 8th, 2010 | Artikelen, Events, Publicaties
Kathryn Stockett is living the dream of every first-time author. It took her five years to write her first book, ‘The Help’, about race in the sixties in America’s Deep South. It went to the top of the New York Times beststeller list and stayed there for a full year. I interviewed her for the John Adams Institute. Read my introduction here: [embeddoc url=”http://www.tracymetz.nl/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/kathryn-stockett-br-hulp-in-de-huishouding.pdf” download=”alluser”]
feb 11th, 2009 | Artikelen, Events, Publicaties
The proposition of the American journalist about food, Michael Pollan, is: don’t eat food your grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food. That seems simple, until you are in the supermarket.
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