WAAC history
The Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center (WAAC) of Virginia Tech inhabits the former Lee School for Girls on Prince Street between the north–south branches of Route 1. This sixteen room high school […]
Tag Archives: Architecture
The Metaphysician
Until the publication of The Seven Lamps of Architecture in 1849, John Ruskin published anonymously. For the first two volumes of his Modern Painters (1843, 1846), Ruskin was identified only as […]
Sacro bosco
The Sacro bosco in Bomarzo, Italy, also known as Parco dei Mostri, was built by Pier Francesco “Vicino” Orsini, patron of the arts, as a melancholy tribute to his lost love in […]
Neo-Plasticism
Dutch artist Theo van Doesburg was perpetually at odds with the Bauhaus ideology of the early 1920s, initially inspired by German Expressionism and upheld by Johannes Itten. At the same time, […]
Space as Membrane
In Der Raum als Membran (Space as Membrane, 1926), Siegfried Ebeling described the outer membrane of a house as a breathable skin able to protect its inhabitants from harmful pollutants […]
Pangeometry
In K. und Pangeometrie (1925), El Lissitzky created this triptych to demonstrate three methods of visual construction. What he has labeled as “Leonardo” was referring to the predominantly Western European […]
Spatial Intersections
Vladimir Tatlin exhibited his contre-reliefs in Moscow and Petrograd (St. Petersburg) in 1915. These three dimensional constructions inhabited corners, unlike his centre-reliefs which were mounted against a flat wall. One […]
Festival of Song and Light
American architect Claude Fayette Bragdon captivated audiences with his designs for mesmerizing light shows in the early twentieth century. In addition to his writings on the spatial fourth dimension, Bragdon […]
New Year
I’m starting the New Year with one goal accomplished. I became a Registered Architect in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on December 29, 2015. Thanks to NCARB for loosening some of […]
Jodi La Coe, R.A. 