Welcome to my website/blog debut!

Architecture is constantly affecting us. We live and work in it, we travel the globe to see it, it stirs our emotions and can fulfill the soul. My newsletter is a way into this world, a place where I can engage peers and newcomers alike in an evolving conversation about architecture. I will share my points of view on a variety of architectural topics and share with you some of the buildings, towns and events, local and beyond, that have inspired me. I hope they will do the same for you.

Minneapolis Public Library, Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, Photography: Nattapol Nuwat

Be sure to visit the other pages on this site for more information on architecture and on my particular projects along the Connecticut shoreline and beyond.

Events

Here are some local architecture exhibits of interest:

Aggregate: Art and Architecture — a Brutalist Remix

Now to November 22, 2009 at The Westport Arts Center Gallery, 51 Riverside Avenue, Westport , CT

This is an art exhibition inspired by the 20th-century architectural style of Brutalism, including concrete architecture in the shoreline region of CT. Aggregate explores the impact of Brutalist architecture on society, exhibiting artworks that reflect, evaluate, and expand upon its goals, materials, and mixed receptions.

(FYI “Brutalism” is from the French “Beton brut” or raw concrete, the material most used in this modernist architecture of the 1950’s to mid 1970’s.)

What We Learned: The Yale Las Vegas Studio and the Work of Venturi Scott Brown & Associates

Now to February 05, 2010 at the Yale School of Architecture, 180 York Street, New Haven , CT

Two concurrent exhibitions showcasing the groundbreaking Las Vegas Studio of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown as well as the work of their firm will be presented by the Yale School of Architecture at the gallery of Paul Rudolph Hall. The exhibitions offer complementary perspectives on the legendary studio taught at Yale in 1969 and its subsequent impact on the teaching, research, and design work of Venturi and Scott Brown, two of America’s most prominent architects.

“Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul” – Ernest Dimnet

A bientot,
Karin