Tag: architecture

Selamat Datang [Welcome]

Life has no boundaries when every place can be home – Jen Shyu Singapore is not just every place – it is the land of my birth. It is where most of my family lives. I was raised and educated there and worked for close to a decade before moving to the United States. I…

May 9, 2020
Bold Barcelona

Spain’s second largest city is also perhaps it’s most interesting. Innovative, vibrant and just plain beautiful! I could not help admiring the buildings and lovely wrought iron balconies so common in Barcelona. There are many, many, small alley ways here and one can get lost very easily. One minute you’re on track, and then you’re hopelessly astray.…

June 14, 2016
Prague Summer

I had every intention of rereading Kafka, The Metamorphosis in particular, before we left for his birthplace in the Czech Republic a fortnight ago. It was not to be. I still have the volume by my bedside and will get straight to it after I finish my current favorite Coetzee’s Scenes from a Provincial Life.…

June 25, 2013
Taliesin West

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.” Frank Lloyd Wright The desert has a voice. And Frank Lloyd Wright heard it a long time ago. He arrived in Scottsdale in the 1930s and ten years later had built Taliesin West as his winter residence, architectural studio and campus. Taliesin…

September 10, 2011