Monday, June 20, 2011

Art, schmart, he can write!

Clare Floyd DeVries, (DeVries Architecture Design), says some nice things about Columns magazine in her blog post regarding president David Zatopek's most recent president letter:

The Dallas AIA (that's the American Institute of Architects to you in the cheap seats) sends out a monthly magazine called Columns. Frankly, it's never been the prize of my mailbox catch... until lately. But now?

The present AIA chapter president, David Zatopek, can write! (More elegantly than I.) What's more, he writes about thoughtful subjects. The rest of the mag follows his lead with a 30th year retrospective that's chock full o' nutty articles: a piece on influential early Dallas architects; another on archiving drawings; a piece on State Fair Park, one of the great collections of Art Deco; a photo-essay on restored houses; and a playfully written page (playful? AIA? together??) on the fraught relationship between architects and contractors.

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Posted by Kerrie Sparks, communications coordinator with AIA Dallas.

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