archi-trouve*

Have you noticed anything odd about this blog? Has it occurred to you that I live in Bordeaux, one of the most beautiful citi...

Man, oh man. I’m just all over the place with this blog. A few weeks ago I started on the subject of Gothic architecture and ...

It’s nearly 100 degrees in Bordeaux and it’s August, so most of France is on vacation. Restaurants are closed, the stree...

Before I dive into Gothic architecture I’d like to say a very warm thank you to Cindy Bogart of The Daily Basics and Lynn ...

When I was studying architecture in the late 70s, modernism was all the rage. The Bauhaus. Mies. Gropius. And of course, th...

A couple of weeks ago I posted Part 1 of Abbey Road where I described the beginnings of Fontenay, the gorgeous Cistercian a...

The Place de la Bourse , or Stock Exchange, reflected in the Mirror For my next blog post I had intended to write Part 2 of...