Archive for August, 2008
Light is the Theme: Kimbell Art Museum
My trip to the Kimbell Art Museum was perhaps the first time I visited a work of architecture that I consider a masterpiece. It is timeless, elegant, beautiful, and a feat of structural engineering.
[Image: Louis Kahn inside the auditorium of the Kimbell Art Museum. Scanned from Light is the Theme.]
Of all buildings I have [...]
East Village, Then and Now
When I moved to New York, my first apartment was in the East Village. More specifically, I was in Alphabet City at 10 St. and Ave. B, one block north of Tompkins Square Park. This neighborhood in many ways formed my first impressions of the city and street life in New York. To many, however, [...]
Urban Diversion 2.0
The International Center of Photography (ICP) is currently running an exhibition on recent photography and video from Japan called Heavy Light. Although the exhibit is incredible, it was not all within my taste. I did see one piece by Naoya Hatakeyama, however, that made it worth the admission alone. Perhaps this is more telling of [...]
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