Palazzo Piccolomini

A BRIEF HISTORY OF ROOF GARDENS

Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle.  – Francis Cabot Lowell   There is something magical about a roof garden.  Parks and backyard gardens are wondrous places, but when they are placed high above the earth on a rooftop, where they are not supposed to be, the experience becomes invigorating and unforgettable.  In a

MA THESIS IN HISTORICAL AND SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE FROM NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

I’ve just finished my MA program at New York University in Historical and Sustainable Architecture.  The focus of the program is Adaptive Reuse, urban regeneration, and sustainability.  I was fortunate enough to be able to study in London.  My time there was all too brief but it has opened my eyes to the possibilities of adaptive reuse and just how far behind America is in such matters (among others, but