Before coming to Stuttgart I didn't know anything about the Weißenhofsiedlung (residential development curated by Mies van der Rohe in a collaboration between Deutscher Werkbund and the state). It's a fascinating predecessor to the Case Study Houses, as well... View full entry
1927 in Stuttgart, Germany. I'll give the answer in my next real post. View full entry
For the past few weeks I have been thinking mostly about modernity and ideology. We talk often in architecture about the relationship between theory and practice. Like the opposition of public/private or political/autonomous, the duality of theory and practice feels both important and... View full entry
Posts are sporadic. Topics span architecture, urban design, planning, and tangents from these. I sometimes include excerpts of academic articles.
