Mike Brady, a widowed architect, doing business mostly in Hollywood, California designed a unique home in the San Fernando Valley for his new blended family of a wife and six…
Tag: Architecture
A golden section is a line segment that has been divided into two parts in such a way that the ratio of the longer part (a) to the shorter part…
Plenty of very vacant spaces were created when this old motor hotel was razed in February 2018. These images were taken after an extensive asbestos removal operation and right before…
Form follows function is a principle of design often associated with modern architecture and modern industrial design of the 20th century. This design principle states that the shape of a…
The Bauhaus (the full name Bauhaus means “state building house”) was the most famous school of architecture and design of the 20th century. Founded by Walter Gropius at Weimar, Germany,…
In 1957, the United States Housing & Home Finance Administration formed the Women’s Congress on Housing. This design group was to be a representative view of all the things wanted…
Apologists for the International Style claimed that modern architecture represented a democratic style expressing the taste of the general public, its works often have been seen as aloof and oversophisticated…
These are some striking architectural images taken of the Keystone Community Center located in Keystone State Park near Mannford and Tulsa, Oklahoma. The structure was designed by MODA Architecture who…
The mid-century architectural delight called the Harvard Tower in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Located at 48th & Harvard right next to I-44. The building was completed in either 1968 or 1972 depending…
A dramatic photographic image captured at what used to be called The City of Faith in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It was built by the evangelist Oral Roberts. Angles are everywhere. And…
Photo Study: St. Francis Hospital (New Patient Tower) The New Patient Tower at Saint Francis Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It was opened in late 2014 and the bottom floor contains…
Photo Study: Villa Philbrook Here the main entry area of Villa Philbrook in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The building is now more commonly known as The Philbrook Museum of Art. The view is…
Photo Series: Early Architecture These striking black and white images are not only of “early architecture” but literally “early architecture” because of the time of day the images were recorded.…
Photo Series: Left For Good Old industrial space, once productive, now abandoned and left for good. This type of space will catch the eye and intrigue most who pass by…
À La Carte Food Marts You can pick and choose the food mart of your choice from this menu of architectural concepts. These retail food mart concepts look suspiciously canned and…
Photo Series: Cactus Cathedral A beautiful and bright Sunday morning, perfect for some high contrast black and white photographs using a very sharp 18mm wide angle lens. And, most importantly,…
The Hidden Structure Of A Square 1) Objects within the square are perceived immediately as having a certain size. 2) Every object is seen as having a location within the…
Here’s another House of the Future! Oh yeah! Primary colors included.
Swinging Bachelor Pads (Part 2) A bachelor pad is a slang term for a house (pad) in which a bachelor (a single man) lives. The exact standards on what constitutes a bachelor pad are often ambiguous…
Swinging Bachelor Pads (Part 1) A bachelor pad is a slang term for a house (pad) in which a bachelor (a single man) lives. The exact standards on what constitutes a bachelor pad are often ambiguous…
The May 1962 issue of Playboy magazine contained their posh plans for exciting urban living – a three level Playboy Town House. This modern town house was billed as a “modishly…
