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Top Ten Philadelphia Area Gardens and Arboretums The Greater Philadelphia / South Jersey area is home to some of the nation's oldest and most beautiful botanical gardens and arboretums. Within easy driving distance of almost any area location, you can find one of these gardens.
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Sunshine State - John Sayles - Review A review of John Sayles film by your About Guide Marcy Dermansky
The "Barrel Chair" by Frank Lloyd Wright The "Barrel Chair" by Frank Lloyd Wright was designed in 1937 for Herbert Johnson's house, Wingspread. Photograph of Frank Lloyd Wright's Barrel Chair, with description and history.
Frank Lloyd Wright's Details Frank Lloyd Wright's new version of the Nathan G. Moore House proved to be as intricately detailed as the one that had been destroyed by fire. Here are photos.
Living with the elements: the Korean house; In Korea, the relationship between climate, culture and building generates a distinctive domestic architecture
Most architects know the famous photographs of the Katsura Palace at Kyoto in Japan and have marvelled at the subtle treatment of the ground plane: the apparently casual but carefully placed steppi...(Continue Reading) HOUSE AND HOME IN MODERN JAPAN: Architecture, Domestic Space and Bourgeois Culture, 1880-1930
HOUSE AND HOME IN MODERN JAPAN: Architecture, Domestic Space and Bourgeois Culture, 1880-1930. By Jordan Sand. Cambridge (Massachusetts): Harvard University ......(Continue Reading)"Living well" on Naoshima: in a spectacular island setting enhanced by two Tadao Ando structures, a Japanese publishing company nurtures an ambitious art-and-architecture
Imagine a tiny Japanese island where you can encounter works by Walter De Maria, Bruce Nauman, Jean-Michel Basquiat and James Turrell--just for starters--at ......(Continue Reading)Measure And Construction Of The Japanese House - Review
MEASURE AND CONSTRUCTION OF THE JAPANESE HOUSE Heino Engel. 1985; 149 pp. $21.95. Charles E. Tuttle Company. Heino Engel's classic 1964 book, Japanese ......(Continue Reading)Japanese Miniature - Kazuyo Sejima's tiny house in Tokyo, Japan - Brief Article
With extraordinary invention and ingenuity, Kazuyo Sejima fits this tiny house into the densely woven, indifferent texture of downtown Tokyo. Curiously, ......(Continue Reading)
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