Bismarck State College: A Campus Built for Teaching
A Bismarck college campus — and the design logic that gives it unusually good daylight and one recurring difficulty.
The Bismarck Civic Center: A Walk Through a Civic Venue
A Bismarck civic events centre walked in the order a wedding day uses it — entrance, halls, corridors and out.
The Bismarck Art Gallery: The One Decision That Governs Everything
A Bismarck art gallery where one decision — whether the art is in frame — governs every other choice.
The Bonanzaville, West Fargo: The One Decision That Governs Everything
A pioneer village museum in West Fargo — dozens of historic buildings moved here from across the Red River Valley.
The Chateau de Mores, Medora: A Walk Through the Building
An 1883 frame house on a bluff above Medora, built by a French marquis who named the town for his wife.
The Medora Musical: The Light Through the Day
An outdoor amphitheatre cut into a badlands hillside, facing west over eroded country.
The Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park, Mandan: What It Suits, and What It Does Not
A state park on the Missouri with a reconstructed cavalry post and reconstructed Mandan earthlodges — two very different architectures.
The International Peace Garden, Dunseith: Field Notes
A formal garden straddling the international border, laid out across the 49th parallel in both countries at once.
The Rough Riders Hotel, Medora: The Venue’s Own Logic
An 1884 hotel in Medora — a frontier town in the Little Missouri badlands, on the edge of eroded country.