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Audio ::: Ginger Baker

1 April 2010, 18:12

Audio ::: Ginger Baker

Okay, I admit it… I missed Cream, the 60’s band that made quite a global splash. I truly did not entirely miss it but I just knew their name and a few tunes. Not anything like my in-depth knowledge of...

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Elsewhere, Texas Exhibit - Austin Edition

Last Friday, January 15, Elsewhere, Texas opened at Center for Architecture Austin. The exhibit was very well received and attendance was high. I also gave a short speech on what motivated the show and about how...

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The renovations and addition to the Cypress Creek YMCA are under way. The addition looks promising and the renovated spaces are coming along nicely. The place looks totally different with the new look.

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Houston Needs a Mountain

16 November 2009, 16:22

Houston Needs a Mountain

During the recent Texas Society of Architects Convention in Houston I attended a seminar named “The Power of Philanthropy: A Houston Grant Program”. During the event, a panel formed by Rives Taylor, Bruce Webb, Linda Sylvan and Jori Alexander discussed...

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Elsewhere, Texas Exhibit: Going to Austin

Elsewhere, Texas is going elsewhere! Austin will be showing the exhibit soon. Fort Worth and San Antonio also have expressed great interest in putting it on display. The show keeps receiving great remarks from the public. The exhibit was...

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On burning jungles, film titles and one Pablo Ferro

The design of film titles has intrigued me from a very early age. Possibly since watching Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey in 1968. Or even earlier, seeing the opening sequence of John Frankenheimer’s Grand Prix. I watched...

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Brisbane Correspondence

15 October 2009, 12:43

Brisbane Correspondence

Over the weekend we received news and a family photo from former B/A Associate Designer Agnes van der Meij. She reports from her new location in Brisbane, Australia. We were happy to hear and see that her family is doing...

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Book Review: The Stephen Sprouse Book

28 September 2009, 12:27

Book Review: The Stephen Sprouse Book

Our friend Barbara Amelio gave us this recently published book for the studio’s library. Stephen Sprouse, who according to William Norwich was the fashion designer credited with pioneering the 1980’s mix of “uptown sophistication in clothing with a downtown...

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Elsewhere, Texas: Exhibit, Opening Night

Elsewhere, Texas opened on Wednesday, September 23. The show looked incredible, was well attended and very well received. The comments were particularly flattering. The newly blue painted walls were one of the highlights of the exhibit but could not, and...

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Book Review: Tomasello

22 June 2009, 20:02

This is not as much a book review as it is an overview of a catalog of the current exhibit on the work of a friend, but most of all a master: Luis Tomasello. The work of Tomasello is now being concurrently shown at the Centro Cultural Recoleta in Buenos Aires and at Sicardi Gallery in Houston. This is the artist’s …

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