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Flaneuring – Uptown Public Art
I visit lots of places around the country – most often as a peripatetic consultant under the constraints and pressures of a work assignment. A work assignment puts you on a strict schedule without much time for some necessary extras – like actually walking around an old downtown or neighborhood, trying to seep its patina… Read more
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Happenings
It has certainly been a while. Yes, too long. Why no writing? Why the lengthy intermission? What’s been going on? My closest friends and colleagues know the reason and I might as well as confess – and no surprise, really – I’ve been exceptionally busy with work travels and projects these last many, many months.… Read more
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Industrial Landscapes and a Smelterman’s Paradise
Of all the heritage places I have come to know through my work travels and vacation journeys, industrial landscapes have long captured my imagination the most. It is a curiosity that has not waned since the days I first visited the Pullman neighborhood in Chicago when I was a younger version of myself back in… Read more
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Ben Halpern and I
I’ve known Ben Halpern for many years. It was not until very recently, however, that he came to know me. It was last year October, on a chilly, early autumn day that I received an unexpected phone call from him — he was reaching out to me on an architectural photography project he was working… Read more
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Introducing the Chronicles
Historic places provide windows and visual reminders to our collective past. They provide our identity, as well as comfort and reassurance, especially in vulnerable and unfamiliar times. As is often said, historic buildings and communities offer a sense of place — perhaps an emotional connection that is difficult to describe, or a feeling of well-being… Read more
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The Places of Sense Chronicles 