Leon Krier is a provocateur. I was reminded of this when I read about a talk he recently gave to a group of professionals in San Diego, which predictably included a bit of praise for that city’s Balboa Park and a bit of chagrin for some of that city’s objectively-unappealing modern architecture.
Being the man of provocation that [...]
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Edward Durell Stone, Jr. has died. Following his famous father’s footsteps in the design world, Mr. Stone rose to prominence himself, as an award-winning landscape architect in Florida. His large office is responsible for many high-profile commissions, including Fort Lauderdale’s Riverwalk.
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Who knew that that one of the “mafia” organizations Floridians have to deal with on a daily basis is an “elitist cartel” of interior designers? As reported by the Tallahassee Democrat (article now in archive), a couple interior decorators filed a lawsuit challenging the state laws regulating the licensure of people hoping to work as [...]