Tag: architecture

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 569

By Erik Loomis

In General

On October 24, 2019

This is the grave of Calvert Vaux. Born in London in 1824, this son of a doctor was trained as an architect from a young age. Specifically, he was placed under the tutelage of Lewis Nockalls Cottingham, who helped lead this movement. He worked under Cottingham until 1850. That year, he decided to make his […]

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 412

By Erik Loomis

On February 13, 2019

This is the grave of Henry and Carrie Getty. Henry Getty was a lumber capitalist. He’s not very interesting. There’s not even any significant information about him easily available, partly

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The Architecture of Yugoslavia

By Erik Loomis

On February 6, 2019

I managed to see the exhibit at MOMA on the architecture of Yugoslavia and it was basically one of the very best exhibits I’ve ever seen. You can say that communist architecture was ridiculous&#

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 382

By Erik Loomis

In General

On December 28, 2018

This is the grave of Bruce Goff. Goff was born in 1904 in Alton, Kansas to a watch repairman. The family was pretty poor and Goff grew up mostly in Tulsa with a period in Denver. Often, they didn’t have enough food to eat every day. But he learned to draw and showed enormous potential, […]

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 356

By Erik Loomis

On November 24, 2018

This is the grave of Daniel Burnham. Born in 1846 in Henderson, New York to a Swedenborgian family, as a young man he failed to get into either Harvard or Yale and also failed at an initial attempt to

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 276

By Erik Loomis

On July 9, 2018

This is the grave of Louis Sullivan. Born in 1856 in Boston to Swiss and Irish immigrants, Sullivan went to MIT for one year, figured he didn’t need school, and went straight into architecture.

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 262

By Erik Loomis

In General

On June 25, 2018

This is the grave of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Born in 1888 in Aachen, Germany to a stone carver, Mies, as he was known to everyone, took that tradition much farther, showed tremendous architectural talent from a young man, and moved to Berlin as a teenager. There, he became an apprentice to the architect […]

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Brutalism and Architectural Fashion

By Erik Loomis

On October 17, 2017

Interesting piece here about saving brutalist buildings in New York before it’s too late. If saving a brutalist building is worthwhile in the first place. Architecture, which seems the most perm

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 73

By Erik Loomis

On March 5, 2017

This is the grave of Buckminster Fuller. Born in 1895, in Milton, Massachusetts, Fuller became interested in design at a young age, tinkering with any number of ideas. He was a restless intellect and

The Utopian Paradise of Rochester

By Erik Loomis

In General

On May 23, 2016

The scheme of the founder of the Gillette razor company to turn Rochester area into a futuristic socialist utopia is fascinating: Architecture The primary goal when designing the architecture for Metropolis was to make each public space as beautiful as possible. When building a city of such large undertaking Gillette estimated that world renowned architects […]

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The Corporate Suburban Campus

By Erik Loomis

On April 13, 2016

This is a good piece dissecting the continued dominance of the suburban corporate campus in an age of climate change and higher desire for dense living. What makes this more interesting is that so man

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There’s Always an Albert Speer Out There Somewhere

By Erik Loomis

On March 8, 2016

Surely some architect would embrace building Trump’s insane border wall: “With the highly contested nature of this project, and the fact that many, many people object to it really strongly—d

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