By Lynden B. Miller, Public Garden Designer Beatrix Farrand (1872-1959) was America’s finest landscape garden designer. Her most extensive project, Dumbarton Oaks, in Washington, D.C., has been described as ranking with “the greatest gardens in the world.”1 Her career and her work continue to be...

By Mary Konsoulis “The development of Washington will go on so long as the Republic endures. The problems of the future will be multiplied and will be different from those of the past….The remedy lies not in words but in good design, faithfully carried out….”—Charles...

By Andrew Caruso National Building Museum (NBM) Online: Pugh+Scarpa describes “investigation” as a foundation for its practice. What motivates this approach to design? Lawrence Scarpa: In some ways, it’s a personal fear. Throughout the careers of architects I admired, they progressively plagiarized themselves. Their work...

Mark Shetabi is a Philadelphia-based artist whose work has been featured in dozens of solo and group exhibitions. Early in his career, he developed an interest in depicting seemingly mundane objects in ways that reveal underlying meanings and evoke sometimes surprising emotional responses. This interest...

Born in Germany, photographer Carsten Meier received an MFA degree from the School of Fine Arts at Ohio University and is now assistant professor at the University of Miami in Florida. His work, which ranges from lush nature scenes to images of construction sites, has...