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dutch design roadtrip week & . . .
one mere week is a rather brief moment in the flow of time. nonetheless, about two thirds of the iD3 crew connected 2000 kilometers of land between regenburg’s blue danube and the waters of rotterdam’s...
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a new york state of mind . . .
here is a collage triptych of a new york state of mind, just in time for this year’s saint patrick day. even while visiting boston, massachusetts a lot of the thoughts in the conversations touched on...
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the ennobling of objects with time . . .
there is an ennobling process of objects (animate & inanimate) with time. one term used, in german, to describe the outcome of this process is edelrost. i happen to personally like this german term...
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indian summer & autumn . . .
indian summer and the beginnings of autumn in brooklyn, brandenburg, berlin and bavaria. in memoriam of my good friend doug mulaire who died on september 8th; ines and i will miss him dearly and all...
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museum lothar fischer, neumarkt . . . .
in 2004 at the age of 71, a native son and artist, lothar fischer, died just days before his new museum in neumarkt, opened. his life’s work lives on in the lothar fischer museum, located at...
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platonic solids: earth, air, water & fire . . .
dodecahedron an excerpt from the above link: the dodecahedron has been a source of metaphysical interest for at least two thousand years. like a crystal or gem, its facets and symmetries compel our...
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*john cage’s rules & hints for student & teachers . . .
cage’s 10 rules and helpful hints for students and teachers in conjunction with the re-accreditation of architecture, the iD accreditation process had a rite of passage this past friday, december...
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happy new year . . .
happy chinese new year from sunset park brooklyn & regensburg bavaria. two of the image here are fragments from chrissy angliker’s paintings, that are being shown at the mediums exhibit | curated...
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a new adventure in sunset park . . .
as of the month of may, ines and i will begin a new adventure in bi-continental living. we will have a new apartment in sunset park brooklyn as well as our current apartment in bavaria. our new address...
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a visit to the north country . . .
i took a trip train to the north country to talk with people i’ve known for some time. the city stops included weimar, hamburg & copenhagen. i had a chance to catch up with old friends like...
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painterly patina at ps1 . . .
moma’s ps1 has a number of stairways with painterly patinas. although these spaces most likely weren’t intended to be visual experiences, they still convey a wonderful combination of space and ambience...
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edelrost in new york . . .
“edel sei der mensch, hilfreich und gut;denn das allein unterscheidet ihn von allen wesen, die wir kennen . . .” johann wolfgang von goethe’s das göttliche edelmut (gallantry) is a lot different than...
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autumn imagery from basel & zürich . . .
autumn imagery from basel and zürich in october; people, memories, food, fun, art, objects, architecture & spacial experiences . . .
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lubok in bavaria . . .
this past week i went to schwandorf’s oberpfälzer künstlerhaus to see lubok book’s bavarian exhibit twice (once with daniela d. and jnés b. and again with bernhard l.). the first time i became aware of...
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art & design venues in nuremberg . . .
the academy of fine arts, nürnberg, july 11th 2016: an excerpt: summer celebration at the academy of fine arts the new museum; the bavarian state museum for art & design, nürnberg: an excerpt: we...
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brooklyn sitooterie . . .
“i had 3 chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.” walden; henry david thoreau brooklyn sitooterie* . . . pronunciation | \sit-oot-er-E\ * sitooterie world wide...
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among friends & rauschenberg . . .
painting relates to both art and life. neither can be made. (i try to act in that gap between the two.) robert rauschenberg, 1959 an excerpt from the robert rauschenberg foundation below: rauschenberg...
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light, color & james turrell . . .
celestial twilight: die blaue stunde . . . unfortunately there isn’t a correlating english reference to what the germans call, die blaue stunde, but light, color and spacial relationships are all...
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an engineer invents a new art form . . .
alexander calder graduated in 1919 from stevens institute of technology in hoboken, new jersey with a degree in mechanical engineering. after graduation, he held jobs with an automotive engineer in...
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