by Witold | Oct 18, 2019 | Modern life, Urbanism
I recently received my new passport. The pages for stamps and visas are decorated with images, as they have been in the past, but this is the first time I looked at them closely: a windjammer and a lighthouse; a steam engine pulling a train in a Western landscape; a...
by Witold | Aug 23, 2019 | Modern life, Urbanism
“I love Paris in the spring time”–Cole Porter
by Witold | May 29, 2019 | Architecture, Urbanism
Here is a recent photograph of Catfiddle Street an infill development in Charleston, which is slowly coming together. The house in the foreground is being built by Vince Graham and was designed by George Holt and Andrew Gould. The veranda has wrought-ironwork, a...
by Witold | May 24, 2019 | Architecture, Urbanism
My friend Vince Graham holds a copy of my new book in front of his Charleston home. The house features in Charleston Fancy: Little Houses and Big Dreams in the Holy City, published by Yale University Press. The book combines three themes, architecture, cities, and...
by Witold | Mar 23, 2019 | Architecture, Urbanism
There have been a number of articles about the new Hudson Yards project in New York: Michael Kimmelman in the New York Times, Michael J. Lewis in the Wall Street Journal, Alexandra Schwartz in the New Yorker. Schwartz is forthright: “what Hudson Yards really feels...
by Witold | Apr 6, 2018 | Architecture, Urbanism
Passing the entrance to 10 Rittenhouse Square on 18th Street in Philadelphia today I was caught up short. Robert A. M. Stern Architects, who designed the 33-story apartment tower, have done something cunning. The entrance to the tower is distinctly low key, a simple...
