Apr 9, 2024
That was some party. Even though I didn’t make it to the splashy opening, I did attend the transformational exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, our subject in this episode. A rarely used sculpture gallery was filled with ranks and files of cheap drafting tables, their tops tilted to display what seemed to be pages out...
Dec 20, 2023
Sarah Pillsbury, or Sally as she was better known by her peers, and Jean Bodman were both architects who married architects. As an architect who also married an architect, my perspective may be more inside baseball on the professional side, but utter awe and fascination on the family end.
I’m Cynthia Phifer Kracauer,...
Aug 14, 2023
1913 was the year of the grand march for suffrage in Washington DC, the 250,000 marchers and attendees eclipsed the coverage the following day of the inauguration of Woodrow Wilson. Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, population 4216, had its own march, on the fourth of July. Costumes were di rigeur, with a goodly number of ...
May 31, 2023
I picked up a free glossy real estate magazine with an enticing photograph of summer leisure pursuits under the title Sag Harbor: A Whale of a Good Time. We traveled out there in early spring, collecting voices of preservation, community, celebrity, and long tenured summer families as we searched for Amaza...
Apr 19, 2023
Anyone who writes about American architecture of the mid
twentieth
and early 21 st century measures their critical achievement with
the
yardstick drawn by Ada Louise Huxtable. With countless articles
for
two great daily newspapers, this petite New Yorker had a
gigantic
influence on our understanding of the work of...