In the mid- to late nineties, I worked extensively as a
contributing editor
for the New York architecture and design magazine Metropolis.
Below,
you'll find two pieces from that era, but there are at least
a dozen more
for which I still have to create PDFs. Anxious to see them?
Drop me a line.
One magazine (RIP)
"Swiss
Mix"|February
2001 | View
text-only PDF | View Scanned
Images My take on the oddly miscegenated spaces of Zurich, such
as the Seebad Enge sauna/nightclub, the
Tampopo art-deco furniture store/Thai takeaway, and the Time Tunnel
hair salon/Seventies Design mecca.
Metropolis
"Changing the Game"|July
1998| View
Archived Webpage In which the office-furniture behemoth Steelcase and design
gurus IDEO team up, hoping to redefine the American office.
"Company Town"| February 1998|
View
Archived Webpage A feature on Canadian telecom giant Nortel's aggressive
embracing of the corporation-as-city metaphor
in a former factory. One anonymous employee called the project
"a skyscraper laid on its side."
ArtNet.com
"Panton's Plastic Universe"|March
2000| View
Archived Webpage
My review of the Vitra Design Museum exhibit that showcased
light fixtures, furniture and entire rooms by
seminal Sixties designer Verner Panton. The photos are luscious,
as is the classic Panton chair.
Interior Design
"Light reading"|November
2006| View
PDF
A short piece on a house built around the light-drenched library
of books belonging to the owners,
which required Herculean levels of engineering .
"A machine for thinking in"|August
2005| View
PDF
An extended caption for a really amazing image: Olaf Nicolai's
"Baraque de Chantier, his remake of Le
Corbusier'sworking space, not a
modernist atelier but rather a prefab hut.
"From Palladian to Cattelan"|October
2004| View
PDF
Detailing the surprisingly successful marriage between
an ancient palazzo near Udine and the artworks
of artists such as Koons, Cattellan and Carl Andre, curated
by Francesco Bonami.
"Ever Green"|January
2004| View
PDF
A very short piece on a very cool project, in which Dan Harvey
and Heather Ackroyd covered the interior
of an abandoned church with a lush layer of grass. Is it art?
I'm not sure.
"A View of Venice"|August
2003| View
PDF
Extended caption on the Venice Biennale collaboration between
Britain's hottest young black painter,
Chris Ofili and the world's hottest young black architect, David
Adjaye.
