On Paul Rudolph and Sarasota's Forgotten Modernist Mecca
"Paul Rudolph first learned about using space efficiently when he worked as a naval architect during World War II, designing ships where hundreds of sailors could live in very tight quarters. When he moved to Sarasota, Florida in 1941, the architect used what he had learned"
Did anyone proofread or sanity-check this article? He learned things in WW-II, which the US entered in December 1941, and then later, still in the same month of 1941, he moved to Sarasota and applied what he had learned? He must have been a fast learner.
On Paul Rudolph and Sarasota's Forgotten Modernist Mecca
Tourists from around the world have been coming to see Sarasota’s mid-century architecture for many years. The body of work is small compared to California’s, but it is indeed beautiful. For more info about the Sarasota School of Architecture, including Paul Rudolph, Tim Seibert, Victor Lundy, Gene Leedy, Bert Brosmith, William Rupp, Frank Folsom Smith and Carl Abbott, these 3 books will get you started: The Sarasota School of Architecture by John Howey; Sarasota Modern by Andrew Weaving; Paul Rudolph: The Florida Houses by Joseph King and Christopher Domin. Enjoy! Martie Lieberman, www.modernsarasota.com
A Handy Guide to How Metro Will Spend $14 Billion Across LA
@Buildings R Us: You do realize that if the Democrats controlled congress, Villaraigosa’s 30/10 plan likely would have become a reality, right?
It’s pretty clear that your team is responsible for the sorry state of transit funding in this country today… and let’s stop pretending the GOP are all devout fiscal conservatives, because we all know that posturing goes right out the window the minute it comes to dubious, expensive wars (Vietnam, Iraq, etc.) Just watch how a legit conservative like Rand Paul will get eviscerated in the primaries next year for not being a hawk.
Reddit Says LA is the Most Disappointing Place in the World
sorry- glitch-
as I was ranting: the Hollywood Hills, especially Whitley Heights and Outpost Estates, the Inn of the Seventh Ray (every Easterner’s nightmare of California), Bergamot Station, Cuvee on Robertson, the Bradbury Building, Montana Avenue for shopping strolling and café sitting, the Silent Theatre, Abbott Kinney for shopping and hanging out (especially Hal’s and Todd Reed’s amazing new studio showroom), the Culver City galleries, dozens upon dozens of excellent restaurants in damn near every part of town, the Pantages, Topanga Canyon, Richard Neutra, Pierre Koenig, Frank Lloyd Wright, Paul R. Williams, Myron Hunt, Gamble & Gamble, Marshall Wilkinson and Frank Gehry architecture, people of every imaginable color, nationality, ethnicity and sexuality (although some people find that disturbing; I once had a visitor from Wisconsin complain that Venice was full of "’too many different kinds of people" so we took her to much, much whiter Manhattan Beach and she calmed down), Susie’s Cakes in Marina del Rey, unparalleled people and car watching( where else can you see Aston Martins and Bugatti’s in their natural habitats?), Boardner’s, Musso & Frank’s Grill, Hollywood Forever cemetery, especially when they are showing movies in the summer time (much more fun than the Walk of Fame) and yes, beaches, palm trees (which I missed achingly while at school back East), and dazzling sunsets. Sip a pinot grigio somewhere with an ocean view as the sun slips into the Pacific, and tell me you still hate it here, and I will know that you are lying.
Sheds O' Scandal Kept in Place by Grosse Pointe Park
you can drive on mack, charlevoix, vernor (which detroit out of hate made one way, so people from grosse pointe cannot enter there) , kercheval, st paul, where wayburn hooks over back to alter, then picks up again after the church and police.
How is this any different than palmer, or layfette park, or harbor town, or the place over by connor with TWO gates one must pass through.
The staff here featured that racist development, with a racist past, with homes built by old money racists in the 1920s, they currently have two gates one must pass through, one of which is guarded, then thats for lowly apartment people, they still are not allowed to pass all the way to the river with the nice houses. RACIST!