The small apartment that I share with my daughter and hubby was recently featured in the San Francisco Examiner. Stephanie Stillman, a fellow landscape designer, has been writing a series of At Home articles exploring how designers and artists arrange their home spaces. We were honored to be included, and it was a refreshing challenge [...]
This is the California that lived in my imagination before I moved here. A Radial (and radical), tree house complex tucked away in the redwoods, built by a serious architect but feeling like a daydream. Daniel J. Liebermann designed and built the house in 1958 for his family. The New York Times recently featured the [...]
Happy to see that SANAA won the Pritzker Prize this year. Of their projects, I’ve only experienced the New Museum first hand, but I thorougly enjoyed it, and love the contrast of its meshy white skin to the neighborhood that surrounds it. Something tells me they like the looks of that contrast too. Photographs of [...]
This morning I was looking through pictures from our travels in India. I’ve included some of the highlights above, and more can be seen at http://www.gregandrandi.com/jaihind/, and the blog we kept can be found at http://www.gregandrandi.blogspot.com/. I think one of the most lasting memories from that trip was the death defying rickshaw riding we did. [...]
The newly designed facade for the Portland Federal Building was recently featured in the New York Times. Years ago, I worked at SERA Architects with Don Eggleston, who is overseeing the renovation of the existing building, and couldn’t be happier to see some attention given to the project. Controversy is stirring, as the green wall is [...]
Way to go Archinect for setting up a design competition in reaction to the referendum recently passed in Switzerland banning the construction of new minarets. What a great way to re-examine religious freedom and shifting cultural landscapes. Archinect is right, Switzerland, we have a problem.
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Knut Hamsun is one of Norway’s Nobel Prize winning authors, and one of the most problematic and divisive figures in its literary history. He was an overt Nazi sympathizer and at the same time, is celebrated as being one of the founders of modern literature. Architect Steven Holl created a Hamsun Center in Hamsun’s home [...]
I finally made it to the newly reopened Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades. My expectations were very high, having read a number of reviews praising the new entry buildings, cafe, grounds and amphitheater, and I have to admit, I left a little disappointed but also thoroughly entertained. The collections are amazing, after all, but that [...]
I don’t think I really understood the potential warmth of minimalism until I went to the Schindler House on King’s Road in Los Angeles. The notion that this house and studio will be 100 years old in just 13 years should give all of us a swift kick in the butt to try and come [...]
Greg and I visited the recently completed sculpture garden on the roof of San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art today. We had a great afternoon, it was sunny and hot, and we had the best iced coffee ever at the new Blue Bottle Coffee cafe anchoring the space. I enjoyed it, and looked forward to [...]