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Speaking at—and of— Gansevoort Plaza, a public space he designed, landscape architect Ken Smith considers the story of the past as well as the needs of the present: “Land has memory. It’s really a crime to erase the memory of a place.” Smith tells us about John Cage, Spiral Jetty and…acorns.
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On March 2, 2023, the acclaimed architect Rafael Viñoly died suddenly, at 78, just two weeks before his scheduled “Person Place Thing.” Rather than cancel, his son Román used the occasion to reflect on his father.
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Landscape architect Kate Orff has learned a lot — about nature, about human behavior, about their intersection. Her hope for the future: “Can we just make better mistakes, can we not make the really, really dumb mistakes.” Orff tells us about Forest Park and a he hori hori knife.
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Architect Jason Korb discusses the construction of a mass timber building set to be the tallest of its kind.
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This week on Person Place Thing, when Jonathan Marvel was a kid, his great-uncle Buckminster Fuller often came to the house. When he was a young man, he…
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The Linde Center for Music and Learning is designed by William Rawn Associates Architects, led by William Rawn and Cliff Gayley, and is the largest…
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“In Frederic Church’s Ombra: Architecture in Conversation with Nature” is a new exhibition on view at Olana State Historic Site in Hudson, New York.…
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Kem Weber, a well-known mid-century architect, was part of the distinctive West Coast modernism movement that helped shaped the relaxed California…
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Mary Cummings is a writer and historian. She has been awarded by the New York Press Association for her obituary of Joseph Heller and a “Best In-Depth…
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Ronald Rael is an Associate Professor and the Chair of the Masters of Architecture Committee in the Department of Architecture at UC Berkeley. He directs…