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Art
01.26.12: Michael Lundgren, Aaron Rothman & Josh Wallaert
If There Be Such SpaceOn Places, a slideshow drawn from a collaborative exhibition by two photographers who share an interest in the perception and representation of natural landscapes.
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12.12.11: David Heymann
The Evil, Evil Grain ElevatorOn Places, David Heymann continues his exploration of buildings and landscapes — and shows how even a building form as familiar as a grain elevator can come to seem evil.
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12.05.11: David Heymann
A Mound in the WoodOn Places, David Heymann continues his exploration of the charged relationship between architecture and landscape.
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10.13.11: Denis Wood
Everything Sings: Maps for a Narrative AtlasOn Places, geographer Denis Wood and his landscape architecture students map the ordinary, everyday things of a residential neighborhood in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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05.05.11: Donald Judd & Elizabeth Felicella
101 Spring StreetOn Places, an essay by Donald Judd on the Soho building where he lived and worked, and selected images of its interiors, by New York photographer Elizabeth Felicella.
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05.03.11: Adam Yarinsky
Donald Judd and the Blooming of RealityOn Places, architect Adam Yarinsky reviews Donald Judd, by David Raskin, and Chinati: The Vision of Donald Judd, by Marianne Stockebrand, et al.
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04.27.11: Timothy Mennel
Jane Jacobs, Andy Warhol, and the Kind of Problem a Community IsOn Places, Tim Mennel compares the radically different New York worlds of Andy Warhol's Factory and Jane Jacobs's Village — and comes to some provocative conclusions.
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03.17.11: John Mann
Folded in PlaceOn Places, a portfolio of images by photographer John Mann, showing artful deconstructions and reconstructions of maps.
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03.07.11: Beth Weinstein
The Collaborative Legacy of Merce CunninghamOn Places, architect Beth Weinstein highlights a real though often unrecognized architectural type: the diverse collaborations between major choreographers and eminent architects.
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01.18.11: Laura Raskin
Jorge Otero-Pailos and the Ethics of PreservationOn Places, journalist Laura Raskin profiles architect and preservationist Jorge Otero-Pailos and his "Ethics of Dust" installations at the Venice Biennale and Manifesta.
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12.13.10: David Heymann
Site, AscendantOn Places, the last installment of David Heymann's series on the rising importance of landscape to architecture, seen in works by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, Peter Zumthor, OMA, Zaha Hadid, and others.
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12.06.10: David Heymann
Nature-ization Takes CommandOn Places, the second in a series of essays by David Heymann exploring the dynamic relationship of landscape and architecture, evident in works ranging from big civic projects by Norman Foster to small rural houses by Glenn Murcutt.
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11.29.10: David Heymann
A Cloud on a LakeOn Places, architect David Heymann explores the charged relationship between buildings and landscapes in works as diverse as Diller Scofidio + Renfro's notorious Blur Building and Hiroshi Sugimoto's minimalist seascapes.
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05.26.10: MOCAD
Too Much of a Good ThingWorking on a model of discursive community engagement, Design 99 will develop a new project entitled Too Much of A Good Thing. The installation, called The Neighborhood Machine, will collect, analyze and distribute materials and information in a literal sense, but also non-literally.
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04.26.10: Barbara Penner
The Wedding at Cana: A Vision by Peter GreenawayOn Places, architectural historian Barbara Penner explores Peter Greenaway's digital video installation of Veronese's The Wedding at Cana, the latest in the series "Nine Classic Paintings Revisited," shown at the recent Venice Biennale.
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03.01.10: Shana Lopes
New (and Old) TopographicsOn Places, New (and Old) Topographics — selected photographs from the Center for Creative Photography that comprise a complementary exhibition to the current restaging of the groundbreaking 1975 show New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape.
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