Thinking about quenching our thirst for liquid gold: Maybe it’s a good thing development has slowed in Santa Fe. Now will our river survive to be removed from the endangered list? –view article–
PaoloSoleri: One of the World’s Most Famous “Unknown” Architects
Building a world we can live in: Paolo Soleri has labored for decades on his innovative and earth-friendly architectural theories. From Arcosanti—a living project—to the Amphitheatre in Santa Fe, Soleri always has one thing in mind: How are we impacting the planet we inhabit, and will we survive our own version of progress? –view article–
Studio Arquitectura’s Rancho Escondido: A Photo Essay
Santa Fe’s Studio Arquitectura, an architectural firm, plus local and national designers, built the fantastic Casa Escondido in Tesuque’s incredible red-bluff country. –view article–
The Place of Taos Pueblo A Nation Behind—and Beyond—Walls
What most tourist brochures and guides won’t tell you about one of the oldest continually lived-in Native communities in North America: Its inhabitants pay a high price in order to maintain tradition while thriving within contemporary culture. –view article–
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O Bioneers!
A small nonprofit in Lamy, New Mexico, has made conversations flourish between people working on green agendas across disciplines. What do next-generation ecologists look like, and how is design making a bridge for them and their objects to stand on? –view article–
American Pragmatist
Architect Laban Wingert believes that "the program," through which all questions about a building's use get asked and answered, is the architect's mission. He has designed a church, international housing plans, and residences for art collectors that all reflect an unerring sense of the right detail. One of his projects, Dwan Light Sanctuary in Montezuma, New Mexico, blends art, aura, and a geometry of the number 12. –view article–
Now, Forever, Then
Erika got a Nikon. And then she began documenting the domestic life of a boy in 1950s Los Alamos, New Mexico, for this artist project. Erika's photo collages and text give cause for alarm—and hope for repair. They also reveal her process of exhibition-making for The Science Club: The Boy's Room, Now, Forever, Then, part 1. –view article–
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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–
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Vrrroom!
How great-looking industrial products are changing the face of the road and sky. A profile of cool new gear for local motion: electric cars, jets, skateboards, three-wheelers, and kite-wing planes—a brand-new hybrid whose enthusiasts have even built a fly-in cinema. –view article–
Off the Computer, Out of the Garden
In ten years the practice of design biomimetics has moved from abstract to real and is being grounded in a confluence of dazzling new designs and actual architecture. Santa Fe designer Dennis Dollens talks about how biology and software are compelling some astonishing new visions into production. –view article–
A Modern Edge
Architect Michael Bauer constructs a modern hacienda with big views on the high plains of Taos. Trey Jordan re-envisions the family compound on the historic east side of Santa Fe. A photo essay. –view article–
The Odd Couple
A Los Angeles—Santa Fe couple find that art is relationship glue. They reveal both of their houses' collections to Trend. –view article–
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Tea & Symphony
Tokyo costume designer Masatomo Ota immersed himself in Asian crafts and contemporary collage to design and build costumes for Tea: A Mirror of Soul, which has its U.S. premier at the Santa Fe Opera this summer. Trend watched the process. –view article–
Edgy Landscapes
With a nose for theory and a notion that landscape includes everything many does on the planet, a Santa Fe landscape architect shakes up the garden. –view article–
Green Acres
An aesthete of solar architecture lays out the three little rules of green building and shares projects she has completed around Santa Fe over the past 30 years. –view article–
Nature Meets Culture
Artist Helmut Lohr, high on a mesa, reflects on art, discernment, and electromagnetic fields. –view article–
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Adobe Nest in an Orchard
Adobe pioneer Myrtle Stedman's 1937 house in Tesuque still has a veneer of sophistication. –view article–
