Skylands Manor, Ringwood: The Light Through the Day
A Tudor Revival stone manor with a botanical garden in the New Jersey Highlands — read hour by hour, because stone and garden want different hours.
Princeton University Chapel: One Frame, and How It Is Made
A large Gothic Revival chapel in central New Jersey, and the one frame a great nave gives that no other room can.
Highlawn Pavilion, West Orange: The Light Through the Day
A venue on a basalt ridge west of Newark, looking east over the basin to the Manhattan skyline — read hour by hour, because the haze decides everything.
Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton: A Walk Through the Site
A sculpture park in central New Jersey — designed as a sequence of enclosures, each one with its own light and its own object in it.
Salmonberry Inn, Anchorage: One Frame, and How It Is Made
A small inn in Anchorage, and the one frame a northern latitude gives that a southern one cannot.
Susitna River Lodge, Talkeetna: What It Suits and What It Does Not
A lodge on the Susitna — a braided glacial river, which is a very different subject from a clear one.
Moose Meadow Lodge, Willow: What It Suits and What It Does Not
A lodge beside a boreal meadow in southcentral Alaska — open ground ringed by spruce, with soft footing and a big sky.
Pioneer Ridge Estate, Wasilla: The Problem, and Four Ways Out
A hillside property above the Mat-Su valley — an enormous view, with a good deal of ordinary country in front of it.
Blueberry Lodge, Homer: Field Notes
A lodge on the bluff above Kachemak Bay at Homer — looking south across water at mountains and hanging glaciers.
Black Diamond Resort, Healy: The One Decision That Governs Everything
A venue on the open ground near the Denali park entrance — where the biggest decision is whether to bet on the mountain.