Archive for October, 2008

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October Madness

Posted by urban.agent
October 26, 2008

If you live in New England, you always have leaf peeping to look forward to as we round the seasons and enter October.  However, as the leaves intensify with color, the office intensifies with workload.  Call it the end of year rush, but my projects always seem to be squeezing in a string of deadlines [...]

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Louis Kahn’s Salk Institute

Posted by urban.agent
October 3, 2008

When great minds meet, you either see a comedy show of flying egos or genuine poetry.  The latter should be used to describe such an occasion when Jonas Salk met Louis Kahn.  At the time Salk asked Kahn to design a research laboratory “worthy of a visit by Picasso.” What stands now is a place [...]