For many, the year-end holidays are a time for celebration, introspection, and (invariably) travel, perhaps to be with one’s family or to steer clear of it. For many of the …
Architecture’s Institutions: When is a Bank Not Just a Business, But Something More?
In April, 1972, the great American architect Louis I. Kahn delivered a lecture in Aspen, Colo., in which he explained a key principle of both his practice and his belief …
Knoxville Loses Another Fine Mid-Century Modern Building: Hamilton National Bank
There is a hole at the southeastern corner of Knoxville’s Western Plaza. On the morning of Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2015, another building by of one of Tennessee’s finest 20th-century architects …
Modern Architecture and Politics (Part 2)
“You can draw any kind of picture you want on a clean slate and indulge your every whim in the wilderness in laying out a New Delhi, Canberra, or Brasilia, …
Modern Architecture and Politics (Part 1)
The making of architecture has always been a political act, not limited to seats of governments or the houses of elected leaders. In the second of my three-part series, “Hating …