by Nicola | Apr 19, 2011
IMAGE: The Photosynthetic Restaurant at the Crocker Museum of Art, photo by Jonathon Keats. On Saturday, April 16, the world’s first photosynthetic restaurant for plants opened for business. Located outside the Crocker Museum for Art in downtown Sacramento, the... by Nicola | Mar 4, 2011
William L. Fox (Bill) is a writer and the Director of the Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art. His ongoing interest, whether writing about Antarctica, the Great Basin, or Los Angeles, is in the ways in which people make sense of landscape. To that... by Nicola | Dec 19, 2010
Although this week’s Glass House Conversation on the pros and cons of public investment in food design R&D has now closed, the questions and responses it has raised are well worth continuing investigation. The interview below, with PepsiCo’s Senior... by Nicola | Nov 15, 2010
IMAGE: Alan Stillman in front of the first T.G.I. Friday’s location at 63rd Street & 1st Ave, on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. In 1965, Alan Stillman was a young man living in Manhattan, who, in his own words, was “looking to meet girls.” The bar restaurant he... by Nicola | Oct 27, 2010
IMAGE: All photos of the Cross(x)Species Adventure Club dinner by Emilie Baltz. Natalie Jeremijenko is an artist and designer whose background includes studies in biochemistry, physics, neuroscience, and precision engineering. She directs the xDesign Environmental... by Nicola | Oct 8, 2010
Earlier this year, I had the pleasure of hearing Jim Fleming address BLDGBLOG’s Glacier/Island/Storm class at Columbia University’s GSAPP. Fleming teaches the history of science and technology at Colby College, and is the author of a recently released book...