Category: Journal

• New York High by Claudia Brennan

  

  There is a stanza in Emily Dickinson’s “I died for beauty” that examines the inevitable supremacy the natural world holds over the follies of mankind.

  2012-01-27

• Unfinished NYC by Joseph Brennan

  

  Upon his first visit to New York City, early 20th century novelist O. Henry commented; “It’ll be a great place, if they ever finish it.”

  2012-01-26

• Tessellating Rooftops by Claudia Brennan

  

  In the both universal and sheepish pursuit of metropolitan voyeurism, windows seem to garner the bulk of attention.

  2012-01-25

• Upstate New York by Joseph Brennan

  

  When one thinks of the dense and dark forests of a Grimm tale, each creaking bough the home of some mythical monster of Germanic villagers’ construction, one doesn’t immediately connect this imagery with the surrounds of upstate New York.

  2012-01-24

• Hampton Strangeness by Claudia Brennan

  

  I only spent three days in East Hampton, Long Island but it didn’t take long to be struck by the strangeness of it all.

  2012-01-23

• Reflecting Johnson

  

  Philip Johnson was a celebrity architect.

  2012-01-20

• Indoor/Outdoor Nonsense

  

  I really like Philip Johnson’s Wiley House in New Canaan.

  2012-01-19

• Glass Concepts

  

  I think one of the reasons I’m such an architecture junkie is because I’m always trying to understand the polarising nature of the profession.

  2012-01-18

• Philip’s Glass House

  

  What I like about Philip Johnson’s Glass House is how humble it seems.

  2012-01-17

• Glowing Glass

  

  Mussolini got me thinking about the whole glass house concept.

  2012-01-16

• The Greatest

  

  What a perfect satire from the wonderful Chaplin.

  2012-01-13

• House of Fascism

  

  The Casa del Fascio on the beautiful Lake Como was to be a temple to Fascism.

  2012-01-12

• Giuseppe Terragni

  

  While Mussolini was getting on with his unique way of leading, in 1926 a group of seven young architects in Milan were introducing Rational Architecture.

  2012-01-11

• Rome Tames

  

  Back to Mussolini and his aphorisms.

  2012-01-10

• Square Colosseum

  

  I remember first coming across the building known as Colosseo Quadrato (Square Colosseum) in Rome in the 1990s.

  2012-01-09

• Cities & The Sky 1

  

  In Eudoxia, which spreads both upwards and down, with winding alleys, steps, dead ends, hovels, a carpet is preserved in which you can observe the city’s true form.

  2012-01-06

• Cities and Memory 5

  

  In Maurilia, the traveler is invited to visit the city and, at the same time, to examine some old postcards that show it as it used to be:

  2012-01-05

• Thin Cities 4

  

  The city of Sophronia is made up of two half cities.

  2012-01-04

• European Montage

  

  Looking back at these photomontages I made 20 years ago I’m reminded of European landscapes.

  2012-01-03

• Beach Time

  

  Sunny times in Melbourne, Australia.

  2012-01-02