Ever heard of the terms “Thin Urbanism” or “Thick Urbanism”? They were used by Sarah Dunn, one half of the husband and wife UrbanLab architecture team based in Chicago, when she came to deliver a lecture to students at UW

It’s difficult for any exploration of the Oriental-inspired 19th-century Victorian interiors to remain entirely uncolored by the strident assertions of Edward Said on the subject. Even the mild-toned lecture which John Eastberg, the Pabst Mansion&rs

  Almost more than any other discipline, students of architecture are overworked (and eventually underpaid), overstretched and, it has to be said, overindulged. So when architect Matthew Frederick recently published his survival guide for architect

Edward Hopper's paintings of ordinary people and incidental gatherings have a strong suggestive power that seems to imply a heftier purpose crouching in the shadows - unspoken words electifying the spaces between speech and silence much like a Raymond Car

In some respects Santiago Cucullu’s onsite installation at the Milwaukee Art Museum encapsulates the post-modern spirit. Rather than being a single cohesive piece it’s an agglomeration of micro-narratives. Titled MF Ziggurat, an allusion t

"Are you angry or are you boring?" asks one of the pieces in the new “Gilbert & George” exhibit at the Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM). The idea that nothing worthwhile exists outside these two states might explain why the work of the artistic

  This past week marked two momentous events in the world of architecture, one of local and the other of international significance. The Old Coast Guard Station, which had silently suffered an increasingly abject existence since it’d been aba

Milwaukee interior architect George Mann Niedecken visited Europe during a time when the curlicues of art nouveau were being succeeded by purer geometric forms of Viennese Secession in an atmosphere increasing opposed to 19th century historicism. Accordin

For some reason when I hear the term environmental architecture it conjures up dour-faced buildings with shaggy grass roofs. It likewise transports me to dimly lit lecture halls full of students watching slides of stick men wantonly perspiring and thereby

Two artists whose work is currently on display at the Armoury Gallery north of downtown tackle the traditional medium of the landscape painting in was that areboth very cotemporary yet at the same time rooted in ancient means of depicting the landscape.