ArchiTina
Updates,
Ideas and Input
March 2014
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Updates
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Coming up . . .
Virginia
– Historic and Contemporary Architecture
May
7 – 11, 2014
Several spaces are still available for
this tour which covers four centuries of architecture, from Thomas Jefferson
to Frank Lloyd Wright to Snøhetta.
Call or email if you can join us!
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Long-range plans for March 2015 . . .
Gulf
Coastal and Antebellum Mississippi and Contemporary Louisiana
There’s a variety of architecture in
this area and I’m planning to visit the following:
Bruce Goff’s Gryder House, Ocean Springs, Mississippi
The recently restored Charnley Cottage, Ocean Springs, Mississippi,
designed by Louis Sullivan and his then protégé, Frank Lloyd Wright
The Frank Gehry designed Ohr-O’Keefe Museum, Biloxi, Mississippi
E. Fay Jones’ Pinecote Pavilion at the Crosby Arborteum, Picayune,
Mississippi
A day in historic Natchez, Mississippi during its Spring Pilgrimage,
visiting mansions and Pilgrimage homes and gardens
The Biedenharn Museum and Gardens, Monroe, Louisiana
Walter Burley Griffin’s Cooley House, Monroe Louisiana
The James House, Ruston, Louisiana, designed by E. Fay Jones
Charming Natchitoches, Louisiana, site of the film Steel Magnolias and home of the newly
constructed Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame designed by Trahan Associates
A special visit to the home of a fellow “architourist” in Longleaf,
Louisiana
The Art Deco State Capitol and the Old State Capitol in Baton Rouge,
Louisiana
Hilltop Arborteum by Lake|Flato in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Trahan Associates’ Church of St. Jean Vianney, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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Ideas
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A
trip I’ve thought about . . .
Charlotte and Asheville, North
Carolina, covering contemporary sites and museums, Biltmore Estate, the Arts
& Crafts Grove Park Inn and Black Mountain College sites. The trip could possibly be extended to
include Greenville, South Carolina, home of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Broad Margin, and perhaps some works
by Jim Fox in the North Carolina Highlands.
Currently there is an outstanding
Mario Botta exhibit at Charlotte’s Bechtler Museum of Modern Art (this is the
exhibit’s only venue in the United States) which is well worth seeing. The exhibit ends July 25th. Could there possibly be an interest in
visiting the South in the summer in order to see the exhibit?! Or perhaps there’s interest in doing the
trip without the Botta exhibit at some later date?
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If
it works out for me to do an Auldbrass tour in November, 2015 . . .
I’d like to do a longer trip and take
a bit of a different approach to the Lowcountry in order to include some
local color and ambience of the area.
Perhaps we’d stay in a nature retreat of sorts, visit homes, both old
and new, in the Hilton Head and Sheldon areas and/or visit the ACE Basin
National Wildlife Refuge and its Grove Plantation House. We could take a tour of Daufuskie Island, a
place that, until recently, time had forgotten, soak up some of the brilliant
local color at Harold’s Country Club in Yemassee or walk on one of the area’s
lovely beaches. Once we moved on to Savannah,
we’d have all sorts of opportunities – walking tours with an architectural
historian or an expert on Midnight in
the Garden of Good and Evil. See Mid-Century
Modern architecture with a local preservationist who works with Docomomo and
who is conducting the MCM tour for the upcoming National Trust for Historic
Preservation Conference. We would also
visit the campus of the Benedictine Military School. You’ll swear you’re looking at the work of
Eero Saarinen!
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Input
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What
ideas do you have?
Is
there someplace you’ve wanted to visit?
Is
there some work of architecture that’s on the “must do” list?
Tell
me about them and I’ll see if there’s a trip waiting to happen!
Tina
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The world is a book and those who do not travel
read only a page.
St.
Augustine
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