Kenneth Geoffrey Haskin + Architecture

This little gem is the Walter Gropius house. Gropius may be one of the most underrated architects of the 20th century. His tenure as dean...

THE 250th BIRTHDAY OF CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH! I love that man---and his wife. Mac was what I aspired to be an architect-- unique in...

I was there. Peter Eisenman designed an apartment building right in front of Checkpoint Charlie. The skewed grid is because the wall...

Ever wonder what the future will be like? Since that darnn apple was bitten by humans we have been stuck with memory and so the past and...

This past March the architecture world lost Zaha Hadid. Her passing left me sad. Anyone passing at a young age (65) is tragic and Zaha...

Architects are strange people. They go to weird places for weird reasons The Maison de Verre, or house of Glass by Pierre Chareau in...

Many people love Falling Water, the house near Pittsburgh, PA, designed for the Kaufmann family by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935. Wright...

What do these modern and Norman buildings have in common? More than you may think. The modern dormitory is by Louis I Kahn and is part of...

Suntop homes in Ardmore, PA by Frank Lloyd Wright are not really about the outside but the inside. There are 4 units of housing all in...

The international style. In 1932 Henry-Russel Hitchcock and Phillip Johnson curated an exhibit at the MOMA with that name. It championed...

Palladio,who designed Villa Rotunda in Vicenza, Italy, may be one of the first modern architects. He played with structure and spatial...

I have been posting a lot of architecture stuff. Why? Because I love it. I changed the format to a blog on my Web site yesterday and do...

The turn of the 20th century brought revolution to Europe. The Euro-Russians had a movement, Constructivism, that flourished in art,...

The Winslow house in Oak Park, Illinoise.( Top) by Frank Lloyd Wright. Though other homes he designed had some of the elements of the...

When I was at Columbia the DEAN! was Bernard Tschumi. (Rhymes with sue me) He was a suave dude who always wore a red scarf--weather...

Elisha Otis perfected the elevator by inventing an emergency brake to prevent falls. He presented this elevator at the1854 New York...