The Young Soldier by Wilfred Owen
It is not death
Without hereafter
To one in dearth
Of life and its laughter,
Nor the sweet murder
Dealt slow and even
Unto the martyr
Smiling at heaven:
It is the smile
Faint as a (waning) myth...
The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens
One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;
And have been cold a long time
To behold the junipers shagged with ice,
The spruces rough in the...
Poem Written At Morning by Wallace Stevens
A sunny day's complete Poussiniana
Divide it from itself. It is this or that
And it is not.
By metaphor you paint
A thing. Thus, the pineapple was a leather fruit,
A fruit for pewter, thorned and palmed and blue,
To be...
Time, Real And Imaginary by Samuel Coleridge
On the wide level of a mountain's head,
(I knew not where, but 'twas some faery place)
Their pinions, ostrich-like, for sails out-spread,
Two lovely children run an endless race,
A sister and a...
Stars by Emily Bronte
Ah! why, because the dazzling sun
Restored our Earth to joy,
Have you departed, every one,
And left a desert sky?
All through the night, your glorious eyes
Were gazing down in mine,
And, with a full heart's thankful...
Death by Emily Bronte
Death! that struck when I was most confiding
In my certain faith of joy to be -
Strike again, Time's withered branch dividing
From the fresh root of Eternity!
Leaves, upon Time's branch, were growing brightly,
Full of...
Love and Friendship by Emily Bronte
Love is like the wild rose-briar,
Friendship like the holly-tree --
The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms
But which will bloom most contantly?
The wild-rose briar is sweet in the spring,
Its summer...
Tadao Ando
Santiago Calatrava
Edith Wharton, 1862-1937; author of The Decoration of Houses, and interior designer
Elsie de Wolfe (Lady Mendl), 1865 - 1950 author of The House in Good Taste and interior decorator
Dorthy Draper, leading interior designer in the...
Richard Meier
Michael Graves
Peter Eisenman
Robert Venturi
Denise Scott Brown
Daniel Libeskind, architect of the Freedom Tower; standign in front of his Denver ArtMuseum, 2007
Kate Schwennsen,
president of the American Institute of Architects, 2006
Marshall Purnell, FAIA
first African-American president of the American Institute of Architects, 2008
Paul Williams, architect to the Hollywood stars
Moses McKissack, son of a slave...
Harry Weese
Myron Goldsmith
Paul Rudolph
Philip Johnson in 1978
by Robert Mapplethorpe
Louise Bethune,
first woman member
of the American Institute of Architects, 1886
Richard Upjohn,
founder and first president
of the...