Tag: design

• Albert Namatjira’s Chasms

  

  One of the residents of the Hermannsburg mission in central Australia was Albert Namatjira. He showed a keen interest in Rex Battarbee’s watercolours. Rex taught him all he knew, including how to sign his name in the white man’s way, and the Namatjira show began. When I look back at my photos of central Australia…

  2012-02-07

• Central Australia

  

  My niece and nephew’s writing about their time in the USA got me thinking about our own central Australia.

  2012-02-06

• American Dream by Claudia Brennan

  

  When the pilgrims arrived on the shore of the new world, they found a secularization of the Garden of Eden;

  2012-02-03

• Visiting America by Joseph Brennan

  

  If there’s one thing that visiting America will teach you, it’s that there’s simply no other place like it.

  2012-02-02

• Sleeping Cowboys by Claudia Brennan

  

  Architects often favor incongruity with the surrounding environment in order to imbue their work with gravitas.

  2012-02-01

• True Western by Joseph Brennan

  

  Along the Arizona-Utah border, just off Highway 163 and deep within the Navajo reservation there lies a series of stratified plateaus, which sit like great fists of rock, pounding a docile plain.  It looks like something out of a movie, and it is. | Glen Canyon, Arizona-Utah, image by Joseph Brennan 2012 | The imagery…

  2012-01-31

• Utah Minutiae by Joseph Brennan

  

  There’s something brewing in Utah’s deserts.

  2012-01-30

• 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