Category: strange land

Ides of March

downtown
Flew over Manhattan high up.

Cessna
Boarded a little plane in Boston. Makes the flying experience very real.

Blustery day, never got much above the clouds. Pilot's window has an arm-hole... Leaving Boston.
Blustery day, never got much above the clouds. Pilot’s window has an arm-hole… Leaving Boston.

First visit in life to Martha's Vineyard.
First visit in life to Martha’s Vineyard.

sense of place

Quincy, Florida courthouse
Dome of the Gadsden County Courthouse. Quincy Florida, Built 1913, architect Hal F Hentz of Hertz, Reid and Adler. The firm is “known in the Southeast for their Beaux-Arts style and as the founding fathers of the Georgia school of classicism.”
Arkansas Capital building
The Arkansas State Capitol was constructed between 1899 and 1915 on the site of the old state penitentiary using prison labor. These buildings, when, where and how they were built cause discomfort among some. Should they be removed?

Your ability to create places that are meaningful and places of quality and character depends entirely on your ability to define space with buildings, and to employ the vocabularies, grammars, syntaxes, rhythms and patterns of architecture in order to inform us who we are.—Jim Kunstler