TUS – Gay Men
A walk through the Feldman’s neighborhood in Tucson turns up this curious piece of graffiti. “GAYMEN” in all capitals. Along with one singular swastika.
Tag Architecture
KS — Unconventional Dwelling 2
Image of a white geodesic dome resting on flat ground like an artifact from a future that never arrived. Utopia doesn’t always recede; sometimes it becomes an iconic form. The geometry is declarative, almost didactic—a structure that believes in efficiency,…
NE — Unconventional Dwelling 1
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” — Buckminster Fuller I found this earthen home pressed into the prairie hillside in Northern Nebraska. This house…
PDX – Liminal Waiting Space
A moment in the Portland Airport, reflecting on Foucault’s concept of heterotopia and Augé’s notion of non-places. Continuing to experiment with adapting older lenses onto a contemporary mirrorless body. In this case, I’m using a Canon 50mm SSC f1.4 lens…
MKE – Modernity Illuminated
Night view through the windows of the Milwaukee Museum of Art addition (designed by Santiago Calatrava, completed in 2001). The frame records a surface where institutional space and exterior ground merge. The image brackets a cultural node within a larger…
MSP – Winter
In the absence of light and vegetation and warmth… all architecture becomes conceptual. The everyday becomes monumental.
TCS – Interstitial Fill
The city of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico is a reminder that capital flows are never constant, unidirectional, or without turbulence. From one vantage point, the city represents a type of heterotopia and a potential gap in the mechanics of…