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Eugene Carlson
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Eugene Carlson is a former reporter and editor for The Wall Street Journal. He lives on Vashon Island. You can reach him in care of editor@crosscut.com.
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Posted Thu, Jul 14, 10:08 a.m.
Rather than a generic park, how about dedicating the Volunteer Park Conservatory to Theodore Roethke? Or something else intensely plant-related. As a child, Roethke spent huge amounts of time in the commercial greenhouses owned by his parents in Saginaw, Michigan. He soaked it up. Doubtful that anyone has captured the ...
MOREPosted Wed, May 18, 10:50 a.m.
In the 1960s, William H. Whyte set out to discover why carefully-contrived plazas and other open spaces in crowded cities so often turn out to be design horrors. I always assumed Whyte's resulting text, plus his charming and revealing short film, The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, were required ...
MOREPosted Mon, Jun 23, 9:44 p.m.
Ando in Bellevue? We can only hope.: I speak for what I assume is a large group -- people who admire architecture but who struggle with the works of many modernists. I've visited Seattle University's St. Ignatius Chapel several times, hoping for divine enlightenment on why this building by Steven ...
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