Tag: Residential

  • Buffalo, New York and Exhibiting The Telescope Houses

    Buffalo, New York and Exhibiting The Telescope Houses

    After working on the Telescope Houses of Buffalo, New York for the last three years, I happily showed the series in Buffalo for the first time last weekend at Dennis Maher’s The Fargo House gallery. When I wasn’t at the gallery, I continued shooting the project and supplemented earlier photographs of the city with new…

  • Houston, Texas, the Third Ward, and the Energy Economy

    Houston, Texas, the Third Ward, and the Energy Economy

    Last week I made a short visit to Houston, Texas during the American Collegiate Schools of Planning conference. When I wasn’t downtown, I spent the majority of my free time in the Third Ward, one of the city’s oldest neighborhoods and home to Project Row Houses. The city’s lack of zoning and the neighborhood’s proximity…

  • The Buffalo Telescope House (and Some Silos)

    The Buffalo Telescope House (and Some Silos)

    Last week I returned to Buffalo, New York for the Society of Architectural Historians‘ annual meeting. As usual, I took advantage of the combination of arriving early and a little free time to explore the city. While my last trip was primarily dedicated to photographing the great buildings of the city’s expansion era, I had…

  • Transitions Between Here and There

    My interest in the transformation of the built environment started with watching the razing of central Indiana farmsteads for suburban expansion in the early 1990s. These buildings, like the one below, became the subjects of my first landscape photographs. Hamilton County, Indiana, 1994 While I typically work in urban areas now, I make an effort…