The rain finally broke yesterday and I was able to go on a FoLAR (Friends of the Los Angeles River) sponsored Los Angeles River tour that covered the south half of river from downtown out to the harbor in Long Beach. This is a section of the river that I didn’t know as well, since [...]

Last week I got back in touch with a classmate that I hadn’t seen since we were in high school together at Laurel School, in Cleveland. Phuong Phan-McManamna is now an architect and LEED AP in Seattle. She and her family now live in Bremerton, Washington and like to play at the Bremerton Harborside water [...]

Here are some of the 700 pictures I took as we drove back home from Palm Springs in a storm.

I visited Emscher Park, in Duisberg, Germany in May of 2000. Backpacking in Europe by myself,  I made a trip to Duisberg just to see the park.  I think it was only a year or two old at the time. Peter Latz, the landscape architect, was teaching at PENN at the time. I was going [...]

Here are some of the highlights of a walk we took yesterday from Intelligensia (@Sunset Blvd & Santa Monica) up to Ballar Hardware on Hyperion Avenue, in Silverlake. Most of the pictures are taken along a one mile stretch of Hyperion that is not very walkable. I have driven it a 1000 times but couldn’t [...]

Here are some of the family photos that I recently had scanned and then posted to Flickr. They all come from the estate of my maternal grandmother Marilyn Christ Anderson, from Bloomington, Illinois.

I love the Universidad de Venezuela. The campus is the masterpiece of architect Carlos Villanueva and in my opinion one of the most visually exciting campuses anywhere. Here are a few pictures from my visit in 2001. Not only is the landscape and architecture really exciting, he collaborated with a number of international artists at [...]

Jonathan and I walked from our house in Angelino Heights/Echo Park to Silverlake last weekend. I took a lot of pictures of the things that caught my attention. We stopped and had lunch at Local and then went onto Intelligensia at Sunset Junction. Then we took the 4 bus back down Sunset Blvd. By the [...]

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of visiting the estate of Roberto Burle Marx, located about an hour south of Rio de Janiero.  RBM was a well known Brazilian landscape architect, painter and ecologist. He used this property as a gardening and ecological laboratory for the plants he collected on trips deep into [...]