…this evening as I continue to figure out what form this rooftop homestead should take, though I suspect it will continue to change, evolve, and mutate through..
…fill the skies out my window in fantastic shifting forms every evening as they make their way from the stone pines and plane trees on the top of the Gianicolo Hill down to the center. (see stories on Daily Mail, BBC, Physics World, and The ..
…which always gives me pleasure to pass on my way home – is the cutest piazza in Rome, a tiny space with a forced perspective that leads the eye up to the diminutive facade of S. Barbara e S. Tommaso d’Aquina dei Librai built on the location of the Ancient Roman Theater ..
…is what I’ll be gradually making for myself this year, including a kitchen garden, bat and bee estates, worm compost bins, laundry lines, a garden of plants for textile dyes, etc. – but only with materials, containers, seeds, plants, dirt that are found or scavenged – and here is a little prev..
a great quote by architect Vittorio Gregotti shown during a conference presentation at the Swiss Institute ….was the title of this weekend’s conference produced by the Depart Foundation at the Istituto Svizzero di Roma – which was of special interest to me since I studied architecture at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia from ..
…the innovative contemporary art foundation with an international bent recently founded in Rome by Pierpaolo Barzan (which just co-produced the show “Hungry for Death” at the American Academy in Rome last Spring) is more evidence that this city is waking up – and this weekend I am looking forward to attending their conference entitled “Whatever ..
…the nearby park and the largest in Rome is one of my favorite places in town – just outside the Aurelian wall at Porta San Pancrazio – where today I had a sunset walk through a grid of Roman Stone Pines – also cultivated for their pine nuts which the Genovese like to use in ..
…was the highlight of a quick visit a few steps down the hill to our Spanish neighbors at the Real Academia de Espana en Roma for a tour of the academy and San Pietro in Montorio which marks the supposed location of St. Peter’s cr..
…was a highlight of my walk today, where I greeted a few of the circa 250 cat residents of some of the oldest temples in Rome, now the site of an organized urban cat refuge where they are fed, cared for and protected in the inaccessible recesses of ruins dating from 300-400 BC and the ..
…is the excellent new book I just received in the mail today from Evil Twin Publications (who you may recall published last year’s 150 foot long ‘Sundown Salon Unfolding Archive‘ accordion book) – which consists of engaging portraits by Kate Lacey, who was assigned by Life Magazine to cover Westminster in 2005…’She decided that instead ..
…starting near the storied Cinacitta’ complex at Anagnina (the last stop of the Metro A Line) and ending near the Termini – was a day long urban hike across some of the more dramatic and unlikely landscapes of the city where ancient Roman ruins rub up against modern housing blocks – and the event was ..
…is the Italian Fascist architect (1903 – 1963) who designed the Via Marmolata post office I passed on my evening walk through Testaccio (which is becoming my favorite part of town), and who was also responsible for the great Casa Malparte in Capri which I had the pleasure of visiting on an adventure in my ..
…is a mystical presence on the Roman skyline as seen from my window tonight. (Wikip..
…an account of his hastily planned 1786-87 trip south to escape his humdrum daily obligations in Germany and luxuriate in the Italian culture he had been dreaming about – is what I had the pleasure of reading while making a much speedier trip south yesterday, flying from Schiphol to Fiumicino in about 2 hours, where ..
…is being created in the North Sea to extend the Port of Rotterdam, and today I had a tour of the mind-blowing vastness of this operation – not to be completed until 2030 – where I was also able to view a blind for bird-watching in this industrial landscape, and dress in an exciting fluorescent ..
…this evening at the wonderful Stroom – described as “an independent foundation established in 1989 as is a centre for art and architecture with a wide range of activities, starting from the visual arts, architecture, urban planning and design the program focuses on the urban environment.” – features exhibition spaces, public programming, commissioned civic projects, ..
…is the coolest thing in town for me today, which I have come across on a few occasions during past visits and again today as I staggered around town for the afternoon in a contented dreamy daze after a new record of six straight hours of deep sleep on the flight – over to..
…was a stunning culinary, pastoral, heartland experience created by Anne Trumble of Emerging Terrain that featured beautiful 20’x80′ images by local artists covering the silos visible from the freeway, an endless gorgeously set table with hand made pottery and wood platters, some of the best squash of I have ever tasted, and perfect autumnal prairie ..
…7pm this evening as the Fall 2010 Vanguard Speaker at the Joclyn Art Museum Witherspoon Concert Hall in Omaha (where eleven years ago I stayed a night with my aunt & uncle as I drove across country to move to LA from NYC with a small truck full of all of my worldly possessions), and ..
…are Parisian delights – the way everyone is welcome to create their own solitary or social seating arrangement in the parks – and especially coming across them first thing in the morning, as I did today in Jardin du Luxembourg, where you see the evidence of yesterday evenings occupation – and even though I’m all ..
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