Branding Culture
The competition is on among American cities to build art museums by world-class architects and to attract the “creative class.” With Denver and Albuquerque poised to become a creative super-region in the West, Trend explores how four former outposts are banking on new buildings to drive up their culture profiles. –view article–
What Next, Albuquerque?
The city to Santa Fe’s south invites new developers to the table and invests in downtown arts as a strategy for urban repair. –view article–
The Proud Regionalist
Architect Suby Bowden, winner of the first Jeff Harnar Award for Contemporary Architecture in Santa Fe, designed a residence on the plains of Galisteo, another in a river valley of Taos, and a retreat center in Tucson, modeled on a Mexican hill town, where cancer researchers go to relax and be inspired. A photo essay. –view article–
Anticipatory Design in Heliotown
Trend debuts an artist project created for the magazine by Thomas Ashcraft, extrapolator extraordinaire. –view article–