ArtBabble: Interior Design

My Favorite Architect, Deborah Berke

Indianapolis Museum of Art — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 17:40:11 +0000

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Miller House Symposium at the Indianapolis Museum of Art

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Deborah Berke, FAIA, LEED AP, creates buildings that have presence and character — that rely on a discourse between a subtle hand and bold composition to become arresting architecture. Berke is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design (B.F.A., 1975; B. Architecture, 1977), The City University of New York (M. Urban Planning in Urban Design, 1984), and in 2005 was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design, her alma mater.

The American Modern House at Mid-century: Glass House, Farnsworth House, and Eames House, Suzanne Stephens

Indianapolis Museum of Art — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:37:34 +0000

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Miller House Symposium at the Indianapolis Museum of Art

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Indianapolis Museum of Art

Suzanne Stephens, a deputy editor of Architectural Record, has been a writer, editor, and critic in the field of architecture for several decades. She has Ph.D. in architectural history from Cornell University, and teaches a seminar in the history of architectural criticism in the architecture program of Barnard and Columbia colleges.

Introducing Miller House and Garden

Indianapolis Museum of Art — Wed, 11 May 2011 14:02:51 +0000

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Indianapolis Museum of Art

Commissioned by industrialist and philanthropist J. Irwin Miller and his wife Xenia Simons Miller in 1953, Miller House expands upon an architectural tradition developed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe—epitomizing the international Modernist aesthetic—with an open and flowing layout, flat roof and stone and glass walls. The rooms, configured beneath a grid pattern of skylights supported by cruciform steel columns, are filled with textiles that feature strong colors and playful patterns.

Jack Travis

Museum of Arts & Design — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 18:18:45 +0000

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Interviews from the Exhibition The Global Africa Project

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Museum of Arts & Design

NY-based architect Jack Travis considers his African-American heritage as he designs, creating an aesthetic informed by 'Africa-ness.'

Cheryl Riley

Museum of Arts & Design — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 16:48:02 +0000

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Museum of Arts & Design

Houston-based furniture designer Cheryl Riley is inspired by the patterns and object shapes of western Africa, as well as traditional decorative elements like cowrie shells, as she creates what she calls her "antiques of the 22nd century."