Tag Archives: architecture

Lawrence should have a Haystack

October 10, 2025 – 9:46 pm

One afternoon in the summer of 2014, while visiting modernist architect Carol A. Wilson’s home studio in Falmouth, Maine, I mentioned that my wife and I were planning to take a trip up to Acadia National Park the next day. Knowing that I had an interest in modern architecture, Carol said, “You should go check […]

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In Memoriam: Stephen H. Grabow

January 28, 2025 – 9:29 pm

If George Beal, Curtis Besinger, and Eugene George were the fathers of KU’s modern architecture program, then Professor Emeritus Stephen Grabow, who died last week in Bloomington, Minn. at age 81, was its passionate, steadfast defender. Separated by one or two degrees from Frank Lloyd Wright and Walter Gropius, who strongly influenced the development of […]

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‘Modernism in Film’ runs on Dec. 6

November 11, 2024 – 8:50 am

Alfred Hitchcock’s playful light comedy North by Northwest, next up in our Modernism in Film series queue, is the perfect tonic to soothe our post-election anxieties. A film set in 1950s paranoia, it stars an urbane and witty Cary Grant as advertising executive Roger Thornhill, who gets mistaken for a spy and is on the […]

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Where KU faculty retire

February 2, 2013 – 6:09 pm

Lawrence possesses a large number of modern university apartments and dormitories built large and small across the campus of the University of Kansas during the 1950s and early 1960s. One of the smallest but, in some ways, most ambitious of this housing type is Sprague Apartments, designed by Kansas architect Charles L. Marshall (1905-1992) and […]

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A simple plan

August 27, 2012 – 11:36 pm

My grandfather Paul and his next-door neighbor Pearly built this hunter’s cabin deep in the Maine woods in 1962, and there are few things in our family that are more treasured. Over the years the cabin has provided for all manner of escape—weekend getaways, visits to the lake, skiing and hunting trips, post-breakup sojourns, and writer’s […]

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