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Following up on his previous book, Charles Rice explores the contemporary implications of atria in his latest work Atrium.

The “radical” flavor of environmental thinking on view is old enough to be eligible for historic preservation: These ecologies are not emerging but emerged.

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CRAFT IN AMERICA: HOMEPREMIERES ON PBSExploring the Many Meanings and Environments of HomeDecember 16, 2022, 10pm The episode is part of the newest season of Craft in America, the Peabody A

Premieres Friday, Dec. 16, 2022 at 10 p.m. on KPBS 2 / PBS Video app. “Home” features Ojibwe artist Biskakone Greg Johnson, North House Folk School, ceramic artist Syd Carpenter, sculptor Wharton Esherick, architect Sim Van der Ryn & the Outlaw Builders, and curatorial consultant/educator Helen Drutt English.

But some vendors worry that the pandemic has shifted buying habits online. . Read more at straitstimes.com.

It was 1981 and then-Gov. Jerry Brown had a problem. California’s 12 prisons were bulging at the seams with more than 28,000 inmates, thanks largely to tougher sentencing laws he signed, and he was told to expect another 20,000 more inmates within a few years. The state hadn’t built a new prison in two decades, stretching back to when Brown’s father, Pat Brown, was governor. The Department of Corrections, as the prison system was then called, wanted Brown to launch a major prison...

The young governor, nearing the end of his second and final term, was reluctant to ask voters for billions of dollars in bond money to build new prisons. His state architect, Sim Van der Ryn, had even refused to endorse plans for new prisons, reflecting opposition by those on Brown’s left flank. Finally, after months of negotiations and debate within his administration, Brown took a minimalist approach, asking the Legislature to place a $495 million prison bond issue on the 1982 ballot, eno...

It was 1981 and then-Gov. Jerry Brown had a problem. California’s 12 prisons were bulging at the seams with more than 28,000 inmates, thanks largely to tougher sentencing laws he signed, and he was told to expect another 20,000 more inmates within a few years. The state hadn’t built a new prison in two decades, stretching back to when Brown’s father, Pat Brown, was governor. The Department of Corrections, as the prison system was then called, wanted Brown to launch a major prison...

In summary California tripled the number of its prisons during the 1980s and 1990s, but now, as inmate populations drop, it’s beginning to shut down some older facilities. It was 1981 and then-Gov. Jerry Brown had a problem. California’s 12 prisons were bulging at the seams with more than 28,000 inmates, thanks largely to tougher sentencing laws he signed, and he was told to expect another 20,000 more inmates within a few years. The state hadn’t built a new prison in two decades, stretchi...