In her monthly “Letter from Baltimore,” Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson writes about architecture, culture, and urbanism in a city more often associated with violent crime than with good design. Click here to read her previous posts. For more by Dickinson, visit her blog, Urban Palimpsest. The ripple effect of the stalled housing market has impacted countless industries—including the purveyors of those…
In her monthly “Letter from Baltimore,” Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson writes about architecture, culture, and urbanism in a city more often associated with violent crime than with good design. Click here to read her previous posts. For more by Dickinson, visit her blog, Urban Palimpsest. Yolande Daniels’s Tea Cozy. All photos: Will Kirk New York has P.S. 1’s courtyard installation; Baltimore…
In her monthly “Letter from Baltimore,” Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson writes about architecture, culture, and urbanism in a city more often associated with violent crime than with good design. Click here to read her previous posts. For more by Dickinson, visit her blog, Urban Palimpsest. Baltimore, like most urban environments, is lousy with graffiti. The culture of tagging is well established…
Upon first encountering the new chair and bench prototypes from the Dutch design duo Tejo Remy and René Veenhuizen, of Atelier Remy & Veenhuizen, you’d be forgiven for not immediately registering the furniture’s material. From a distance, the objects appear to be inflated. Are they vinyl? Plastic? Then again, they could be leather; they look malleable and seamed and just…
In her monthly “Letter from Baltimore,” Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson writes about architecture, culture, and urbanism in a city more often associated with violent crime than with good design. Click here to read her previous posts. For more by Dickinson, visit her blog, Urban Palimpsest. . In the winter of 2009, Ryan Patterson had an epiphany. The community-arts coordinator of Parks…
In her monthly “Letter from Baltimore,” Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson writes about architecture, culture, and urbanism in a city more often associated with violent crime than with good design. Click here to read her previous posts. For more by Dickinson, visit her blog, Urban Palimpsest. Photo: Emily Pilloton Nothing—not even well-intentioned design—is above reproach. The confluence of organizations and individuals working…
In her monthly “Letter from Baltimore,” Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson writes about architecture, culture, and urbanism in a city more often associated with violent crime than with good design. Click here to read her previous posts. For more by Dickinson, visit her blog, Urban Palimpsest. On January 16, Baltimore’s Contemporary Museum kicked off its 20th year in the city with a…
In her monthly “Letter from Baltimore,” Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson writes about architecture, culture, and urbanism in a city more often associated with violent crime than with good design. Click here to read her previous posts. For more by Dickinson, visit her blog, Urban Palimpsest. In 2004, the graphic designer Kat Feuerstein gathered a group of friends, rented a U-Haul, and…
In her monthly “Letter from Baltimore,” Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson writes about architecture, culture, and urbanism in a city more often associated with violent crime than with good design. Click here to read her previous posts. For more by Dickinson, visit her blog, Urban Palimpsest. Perkins Eastman’s Small House is one of several recent examples of better-designed (and greener) retirement housing….
In her monthly “Letter from Baltimore,” Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson writes about architecture, culture, and urbanism in a city more often associated with violent crime than with good design. Click here to read her previous posts. For more by Dickinson, visit her blog, Urban Palimpsest. As a part of the Baltimore Architecture Week held earlier this month, AIABaltimore invited me to…
Photo: Stefano Paltera/courtesy the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Keeping tabs on the Solar Decathlon is a bit like watching a slow-moving golf tournament. Over two weeks, 20 college and university teams from around the world compete to see who has created the best residential prototype for a solar-powered home. The houses—installed in a Solar Village on the National…
A look at the work spaces of four local design practices
A review of a new anthology from the Web site Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood
Project M takes on the Motor City.
Until recently, local design schools shunned community-based projects. Now that’s beginning to change.
A new installation provides an intriguing glimpse into the way individuals experience urban space.
Two of the city’s artists are employing banal materials for organic experiments.
The economy was on everyone’s minds at this year’s fair.
New lines from Kohler, Lefroy Brooks, Duravit, Hansgrohe, and other bath-products exhibitors
Colorful, textured, and tongue-in-cheek tiles at the Italian Trade Commission
