behind enemy lines

Landon Metz oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh, Andersen’s, Copenhagen, Denmark 2015

Pierre Koenig, Oberman House, Crestwind Drive, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, 1962 sources: ncmodernist Koenig Image Archive

Harold Fisk’s 1944 alluvial maps of the Lower Mississippi River Valley for the Army Corps of Engineers. There were 15 giant plates in total, tracing the meanders and oxbow bends of the Mississippi back hundreds of years.

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The cherry trees may have peaked last month, but art and culture are always blooming on the National Mall. The Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden contains more than 12,000 works of modern and contemporary art — and, as this beautifully diagrammatic drawing proves, the museum itself is a creative accomplishment. SOM’s Gordon Bunshaft likened his design of the Hirshhorn to “a large piece of functional sculpture” that optimizes the museum-going experience. Saturday would have marked Bunshaft’s 106th birthday. Learn more

Roger Capron