Please pardon my absence for much of June. In the manner of Charles Cockerell, James "the Athenian" Stuart, Chris Wren and other grand tourists, I shall be in the Peloponnese and Tuscany, sketching, fattening, and regaining […]
It has been close to ten times I have heard those words now, each time from a pedestrian, each one a woman in her fifties or older. And each time I have been slightly shocked. Approaching […]
In the late 1950s the seminal British architects, Peter and Alison Smithson, led a push for artificial ground planes one level up from the city. Pedestrians would walk about on landscaped, picturesque networks, while cars would […]
This blog started with the aim of documenting my quest to own 8 prestige bikes for the price of 1 German car. Shall we check on my progress? A surprise turn came when I arrived home […]
