Author: Anna Andrzejewski
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Work, Play, and Elephants in South Florida’s Leisure Landscape
in EssaysTwo elephants came to live in Miami Beach with resort guests in the 1920s, troubling the divides between humans and animals, work and play. Anna Vemer Andrzejewski examines the ambiguous role these elephants occupied in Florida’s leisure landscape.
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Rethinking Frank Lloyd Wright in the 21st Century
in EssaysFrank Lloyd Wright wanted to embrace the natural world and push the boundaries of modern design. What do these conflicting desires mean for environmental teaching and thinking today?
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Materialized Dreams: Boom and Bust in the Cultural Landscape of West Texas
in EssaysThe hydraulic fracturing (or “fracking”) boom and an imminent bust in the face of a worldwide oil glut are just the most recent swings in a long history of economic and ecological instability in the mineral-rich Permian basin.