The Oklahoma Architect Who Turned Kitsch Into Art

Jan. 31, 2026 Ι Bloomberg CityLab  Toward the end of his career in the late 1970s, the architect Bruce Goff lived with his mother and a tuxedo-hued cat named Chiaroscuro in the small city of Tyler, Texas. He stopped work promptly at 4:30 p.m. each day to watch Star Trek. His favorite meal was roast… Continue reading The Oklahoma Architect Who Turned Kitsch Into Art

The Divining Rod

Landscape Architecture Magazine Ι November 2020 Like a lot of landscape architects, Stephen McCarthy spends much of his time managing hydrology and restoring native ecologies. The sites he works on, in Milwaukee’s exurban fringe, are often landscapes of subtle differences: gentle rises and shallow streams, small agricultural plots hemmed in by hills and wetlands. At… Continue reading The Divining Rod

Mulligans

Landscape Architecture Magazine Ι February 11, 2020  Just a few years ago, Keri VanVlymen, a landscape designer with Ratio in Indianapolis, had never driven a golf cart, but now she’s an expert. Over five months in 2018, she surveyed each of Indianapolis’s 13 public golf courses, trekking “every mile of every trail of every course,”… Continue reading Mulligans