THE NECESSITY FOR RUINS


Library of the Future
January 31, 2007, 5:23 am
Filed under: Paley Library


Security and Invisible Architecture
January 24, 2007, 11:20 pm
Filed under: architecture post 9/11


Tom Joad and The Cliffs
January 20, 2007, 10:04 pm
Filed under: Fairmount Park, Park House, The Cliffs

“Study the hangings, the floors, the pictures, the lighting fixtures, the furniture and the accessory objects. Master them as a series of developments in taste and style. Master them, and you are then qualified to go anywhere and say with much assurance about when a house was built or when a piece of furniture was made.”-John B. Kelly, President, Fairmount Park Commission, 1932 in The Chain of Colonial Houses

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Gates Up!: South St. Bridge (re)Construction
January 11, 2007, 3:04 am
Filed under: Infrastructure, south st. bridge


“Graceful as a bird flying through the air”: Notes on GG-1 4859
January 9, 2007, 2:27 am
Filed under: Environmentalism, GG1 4859, Pennsylvania Railroad