Pics of the Week: Your Favorite Color
17 June 2009, 14:24
Color is a key principal in our visual understanding of the world around us. It can both evoke emotion from us as well reflect emotion from within us. It changes with the light of the day as well as the...
Time to Unplug - The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Experience
9 June 2009, 14:17
Unplug…every once in a while it needs to be done. If you haven’t done it in a while, you need to.
The Southeast Texas Rice Silo
8 May 2009, 17:54
“The Great Plains of America are vast and secret are its villages turned inward…as if time had stood still. These people were not seeking America, but escaping from Europe, and in these first wooden silos there is a memory of and obsession with architecture from different parts of central Europe. Over time the silos rose with ever greater assurance and created the landscape of the New World. In abandoning the problem of form they rediscovered architecture.”
— Aldo Rossi, Italian architect
Whether you travel on the major highways or the less bustling county roads throughout Texas, you see them. They rise out of the earth dwarfing…
feeling the topography
14 April 2009, 21:07
In an urban environment set amongst bustling highways and major thoroughfares, where natural settings have long since been paved flat, terrain is no longer the domain of nature, but requires human intent to determine the land’s purpose and provide meaning...
