Blog: As We See It

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  A Sense of Enclosure: Overnight at Alcatraz

  Buildings can be scary. Ask Brian Turner, an attorney and field officer with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, who recently spent a night at Alcatraz.

   
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  Build Small Live Large Conference, Portland, Ore.

  The Cascadia Green Building Council and several partners will hold a one-day housing summit in Portland, Ore., in late October 2012.

   
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  Michael Graves on the Value of Hand Drawing

  Celebrated architect Michael Graves says the computer will never completely supplant pencil and paper--nor should it.

   
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  Bruce Goff and Nostalgia for the Future

  I can’t look at a Bruce Goff building without thinking of LSD.

   
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  Architecture, Planning, and Pleasure

  The concept of walkability got a boost earlier this summer with a Brookings Institution report that pedestrian-friendly neighborhoods perform better economically than those that require more driving.

   
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  High-Design Sonoma Winery

  A visit to a Sonoma County winery with an architectural pedigree.

   
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  Stupid Building Tricks—and Why I’m Okay with This One

  Oh, look, another building that’s learned a trick. This apartment project, planned for South Melbourne, Australia, presents the illusion of a façade in catastrophic failure.

   
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  Reused bus makes a dandy guest quarters

  Portland, Maine, architect Will Winkelman has a knack for seeing architectural potential in commonplace industrial artifacts.

   
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  Artisan Furniture Makers

  Artisans around the country are creating beautiful, handmade furniture.

   
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  House Painting(s)

  I love paintings of buildings,so I really enjoyed seeing some of Edward Hopper's famous house paintings next to current photos of their subjects.