Third Nature Studio and graphic designer & landscape architect Leah Elamin are assisting Peter Richards with a wave organ project for the City of Marseille. As an artist in residence at San Francisco’s Exploratorium, Richards created a Wave Organ in the San Francisco Bay 1986.
The Marseille wave organ is inspired by the graceful form of a [...]
With a one-year-old daughter, I think about geometry more than usual, along with the other essentials – language, music, numbers, etc. She seems naturally drawn to everyday patterns like these and absorbs them effortlessly. You can practically hear the synapses crackle as it happens.
I recently discovered the work of Anne Tyng, San Francisco-based architect, who [...]
I love this photo from the old Brody House in LA. The interplay of the Matisse mural and the dappled light of the tree is absolutely amazing to me. LACMA’s got the mural now, but I am going to imagine that it’s 1954 and I’m having a cocktail riiight here.
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An appropriately otherworldly design by BIG for Greenland’s new National Gallery was recently unveiled, the winner chosen from six invited architects. The concept is a response to the rugged and somewhat exotic conditions of Greenland itself, one of the most sparsely populated countries in the world. Greenland has about 60,000 permanent residents, spread out in isolated [...]
I recently discovered the Diego Rivera Pan American Unity mural at the Ocean campus of City College of San Francisco. I live and work in the Mission, a neighborhood filled with mural art, but seeing work by Rivera reminded me that his work is something else altogether. Despite my own passion for politics, I usually [...]
Have you ever walked into a store & just wanted to move in? It’s been there nearly a year now, but I have somehow missed Gravel & Gold on 21st & Lexington, right off of Valencia. They have local honey, Swedish clogs, 70’s design books, great clothes, and they host some impressive art shows, pickling [...]
I’m not sure if the goal of “restoring New York to what it once was” can ever be physically perceptible, but the virtual restoration on themannahattaproject.org is fascinating. There is something very small and poetic about reintroducing native plant species to an environment like New York, and something very elegiac about seeing the same seasonal [...]
Too bad this exhibit is at the Barbican Center now rather than when I was in London 6 months ago! The Barbican itself is a treat: Le Corbusier inspired, Brutalist, 1970’s design insanity, and the exhibit looks like a refreshing, multigenerational look at land art, utopianism and experimental architecture.
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These photographs are part of a series done by Schink using true solarization, showing the movement of the sun across the sky. I love it that they look like crosses between ancient photos and contemporary drawings or paintings. Otherworldly.
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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 [...]