February 7, 2009: 1st Westside Arts Distrct Art Walk Terry's Tiny Review

Artists and galleries featured in these pictures:
Kessenich Contemporary not active, Veronica Kessenich, Atlanta Contemporary (Art Center), Amy Pleasant, Bobbe Gillis Gallery not active, Jo Baskerville, Emily Amy Gallery not active, Clayton Santiago, Paul Rousso, Carl Plansky R.I.P., Elizabeth Stockton, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Gloria Ortiz-Hernandez, Kiang Gallery not active, Saltworks Gallery not active, Brian Holcombe, Get This Gallery not active, Drew Conrad, Kevin Archer,

I have 10 years of Atlanta art show pictures.

Click here for 29 pictures from the February 7, 2009: 1st Westside Arts Distrct Art Walk right here on Flickr. More shows to come.

Atlanta Contemporary, Amy Pleasant

Bobbe Gillis Gallery not active, Jo Baskerville

Emily Amy Gallery not active, Clayton Santiago

Emily Amy Gallery not active, Clayton Santiago

Emily Amy Gallery not active, Paul Rousso

Emily Amy Gallery not active, Carl Plansky R.I.P.

Emily Amy Gallery not active, Elizabeth Stockton,

Emily Amy Gallery not active, Clayton Santiago

Sandler Hudson Gallery

Gloria Ortiz-Hernandez at Kiang Gallery not active

Kiang Gallery not active

Saltworks Gallery not active, Brian Holcombe

Get This Gallery not active, Drew Conrad

 Kevin Archer at Kessenich-Contemporary not active

Click here for 29 pictures from the February 7, 2009: 1st Westside Arts Distrct Art Walk right here on Flickr. More shows to come.

February, 07 2009 Rail Arts District Studio Cruise, Avondale Estates Terry's Tiny Review

Little Tree Studio, James Wakeman, Barry Gregg, Corina Pia,Lainey Welsch, Andy Cherewick, Mudfile, and more.

I have 10 years of Atlanta art show pictures. Here are 53 pictures from the February, 07 2009 Rail Arts District Studio Cruise right here on Flickr. More shows to come.

James Wakeman

Corina Pia

Barry Gregg

Lainey E Welsch

Andy Cherewick

Here are 53 pictures from the February, 07 2009 Rail Arts District Studio Cruise right here on Flickr.

Philip McDuffie House (1922) Hentz, Reid & Adler, a "Neel Reid" Part 1 of ?

If Neel Reid himself walked though the front door of 7 Cherokee today, he'd likely say, "You haven't changed this foyer in 90 years! Let's get to work." That's what I think anyway.

The new owners are renovating and adding on. They are removing some of the fancy woodwork in the public rooms. "Fancy?" I really mean HEROIC. Are they ruining a "Neel Reid?" Someone said Yong Pak and Pak Heydt & Associates will be working on it. Take comfort.

It's taken me two weeks to publish a few pictures with captions. How to start when it's a legend? I don't know the names of styles or design details. How much of this did Neel Reid personally design? Did he set foot inside once it was done or decorated? How much has changed in the last 90 years?

My pictures and videos are so lame in telling you about the house but I'll show you a few in the blog. Here are links to my 7 Cherokee pictures in Flickr, my four 7 Cherokee videos in YouTube and a nice biography of Philip McDuffie from Buckhead Heritage. Phillip McDuffie developed Garden Hills among other things.

I don't get invited to these places so I follow estate sales. Once in a while I get lucky, this one thanks to VT Estate Sales.



This is as close can you get without an invitation. 8,562 square feet on 4 acres. My impression is the "whole" rather than the parts, a single composition.

Peachtree Heights West, has been of Atlanta's prestigious neighborhoods for 90 years. There's a nest of Neel Reid's (and more) surrounding the intersection of Andrews and Cherokee.


There's the gate. Looks like money wasn't the issue.


I got stuck at the gate wondering if I could process the house.


Gate details. Original? Neel Reid? James Means? There are many more pineapples and lanterns and lamps ahead.

 

The triple double-windows to the left are the front of the narrow end of the living-room / library. Not a weed in the lawns, the gardens, or the driveway.



Fancy balustraded wall and steps, fancy for the cars.



Even the tire stops are fancy.



Here you go. My long eye says: symmetrical, balanced, harmonious. My close eye wonders: how many design decisions, how many measurements to make harmony? How many budget decisions, value engineering? Do people live here, have consulate parties and debutante receptions? All and more I think.



I felt more important than intimidated. Did the medallions, niches and urns have to be just so?



I've got to stop here for now. Let me tease you with one picture from the inside.


This would be the dining room.

Thanks,
Terry

People, street trees, & buildings share a comparable life expectancy, about 80 years

Building life expectancy:  "There's a lot of spread in that. The average residential building lasts about  150 years, but the average Walmart or a (not so hot) apartment complex last 10 or 15 years but the average is 80 years." Paul Knight's Streets Lecture - Part 1 



Please Come see part 2: Streets: Designing a Master Street Plan (Part II) on Tuesday, December 13th at 6:30 pm at the Atlanta City Studio on the 2nd floor of Ponce City Market.

"Streets" is one the Architecture Tourists favorite subjects, streets as public spaces, making them more fun, less boring, more democratic.

It's free. I'll be there. Please say hey. Don't let the word "lecture" scare you off. This will be fun.

Paul L. Knight, architectural and urban designer at Historical Concepts and president of Douglas C. Allen Institute for the Study of Cities, will present his second lecture about Streets on Tuesday, December 13th at 6:30 pm at the Studio. Last month we learned why streets are the most critical and long-lasting components of our cities. If you missed it, you can view a recording of the lecture below. This month, Paul Knight returns to explain how to analyze the best examples of American town planning, garnering design lessons and principles that can be used for future development.The free second seminar focuses on master street planning and design. Come join us to learn how streets can improve our cities. Please come early--it was a packed house last time and we ran out of chairs.

Here's part 1, about 38 minutes. Part 3 to be announced soon.




What is the Douglas C. Allen Institute for the Study of Cities?

What is the "Bump Rate?"

"Bump Rate" measures the likelihood of "bumping" into someone you know, someone you'd like to know, someone you didn't even know you'd like to know.

Atlanta has a great bump rate don't you think?


Photo-bomb-doggy-bump on Memorial. Thanks Wonderroot and MARTA, Fahamu, Fabian and Joe.

Who you bump into:
You might know them well or not. You might just know their name or not, perhaps just the first name. You might have forgotten their name. You don't know their name but you've bumped into them so often you are embarrassed to ask.

It doesn't matter, a bump is a bump. You know what I mean?

The Architecture Tourist asserts that the higher the Bump Rate, the better the space.

Because a bump is one of those unexpected pleasures you only get if you go out. And you never know where a bump might lead.

Where do you to bump? Here are some of my places.

1. Octane Coffee for caffeinated-hipster-bumps.
2. Colony Square for noon-ish-mixed-use-bumps.
3. Walton Street at lunch for daily-downtown-bumps.
4. Jalisco at Peachtree Battle for longstanding-family-dinner-bumps.
5. Ansley Kroger.for what's-for-dinner-bumps.
6. BeltLine for BeltLine-bumps.
7. Art shows for common-interest-bumps.
8. Ponce City Market for where-did-all-these-people-come-from-bumps.
9. Piedmont Park for Atlanta's-best-people-attractor-bumps.
10. Atlanta Streets Alive for pedestrian-bike-bumps.
11. Everywhere for networking-bumps.
12. Your bumps?

"Bump rate" isn't my idea. I first heard it when Fred Kent spoke to the Midtown Alliance. Fred is from the Project for Public Spaces.


Here's Fred at the Fox.

I called PPS and talked with Nate Storring. Nate thinks "Bump Rate" came up as a measure for a public space project at Harvard. Nate also mentioned a World Bank Paper "BOOSTING TECH INNOVATION ECOSYSTEMS IN CITIES."

It takes academics to put our instincts into words. Atlanta's tech, startup and co-working communities are all over this. Page 19 has this little nugget, with the idea that a "collision" might produce a chain reaction.

Collisions are random encounters with people one

would normally not meet. The theory of

collisions argues that these encounters

bring new ideas, perspectives, and value

for creating opportunities and innovation

(Kaplan 2012). The more collisions

individuals have with people with

different ideas, the more creative and

innovative these individuals may become

(Satell 2013). Hence, the potential for

collisions stimulates innovation and

entrepreneurial opportunities (Roberts

2014). Networking assets (as defined

in the following section) increase

the potential for collisions, acting as

a multiplier of the existing elements

produced by the agglomeration effects

in the city innovation ecosystem (see

Figure 3.1 
-BOOSTING TECH INNOVATION ECOSYSTEMS IN CITIES.

Rare white-Caddy-bump at King Memorial Station.


A one-off downtown tour produced many common-interest-bumps.


Creative Mornings is a bump rate bonanza.

You know what I mean.

You cant bump unless you go out. Please say "hey" if you bump into me.

Thanks Fred, thanks Nate, thanks  Atlanta bumpers.

Terry's Tiny Tour - Classical / Traditional Spring Street in the Drizzle

Here's the deal: This week Maria Saporta wrote:  "It’s hard to believe, but the expansion of the Center for Puppetry Arts is even worse than I had feared..."

When I arrived at Georgia Tech in 1968, Spring Street was a 2-way of car dealerships. Is it less memorable today? Last night I cruised the 15 blocks between Peachtree and Linden to find out.

"Where you headed?" JoAnn asked.

"Spring Street."

"Huh?" was her silent, telling, sarcastic and totally correct response.


However great the puppet expansion might be, it hides a nice old building.

Terry Tiny Tour for folks driving 35-40 mph.


The Temple is one of our finest buildings (Shutze) and you can kind-of see it from Spring Street so I'm giving it an honorable mention.


Peachtree Christian Church (Hopson) is the gateway to Spring. It's stunning inside and out but seems lonely.


The skyline view from Peachtree Christian. It's where the eye goes but ...


The most you can see of the old Spring Street Elementary from Spring Street, the 40 mile an hour view.


It's still there, but fronted with modernist camo.


This is 1385 Spring, tax records say 1920. This and 1050 Spring are the only "houses" left on Spring Street. They are building this style today in my neighborhood.


The superb H.M. Patterson & Son - Spring Hill (Shutze). As if teleported from the English countryside.


The drizzly skyline view from from Spring Hill feels big city but not big comfort.


"Warm" view with drizzle in 19 seconds from Spring Hill. Caution: metal music.


 
Though Crum and Forster (Crook) is only 1/3 of its former self and has trompe l'oeil stick-on windows, it still classes up the place.

One more.


563 Spring Street, tax records say 1926. If pay you attention to the traffic, you might miss it.

Yet to be done: Terry's Tiny Mid-Century Modern Tour of Spring Street might be good.