by Jon Lipman | Nov 23, 2025 | Uncategorized
What was Frank Lloyd Wright thinking when he designed one of the largest houses of his career, Westhope, the Richard and Georgia Lloyd Jones house? The most prominent aspect of the house is utterly unique in his work, and from photographs I could not understand its...
by Jon Lipman | Sep 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
Karin does not feed her bees sugar so it has taken a few years before they have reached the point at which she could harvest honey that she knew they would not need this winter. She bought a honey extractor, which looks a lot like a mini-whiskey still, and extracted...
by Jon Lipman | Feb 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
But we have to allow for a little more complexity in this story about the evolution of the Primitive Hut. In ancient Greece there was also a tradition of a small, round, stone, one-roomed sacred building, which was thought to be the memory of earlier, simple, round,...
by Jon Lipman | Feb 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
There is a memory at the bottom of Western architecture history. Archeologists continue to debate and amend its details, but in its simplest form it does its job for architects by giving them a simple foundation story that is powerful and poetic. And every profession...
by Jon Lipman | Dec 4, 2019 | Uncategorized
In October, 2019 I went on a five-days’-long walk through the city of Rome to observe its great Renaissance and Baroque buildings and urban designs. This is the first of a series of blog posts from my walk. This post is my introductory observations about the...