Things I Can't Live Without

The following are things I can't live without (in no particular order)...


the Blue Mosque (Istanbal, Turkey)
any works by Carlo Scarpa
the climb up St. Peter's Dome in Rome, Italy
Annie Leibovitz's photography
reading
Vrin, Switzerland
"Never grow a wishbone where your backbone ought to be."
Castelvecchio (Verona, Italy by Carlo Scarpa)
ballerina sculptures by Degas
Herzog & deMeuron
the Grand Bazaar and the Spice Bazaar in Istanbul, Turkey
the Thermal Baths (Vals, Switzerland by Peter Zumthor)
Berlin, Germany (especially Adalbertstrasse 65)
Reina Sophia Museum (Madrid, Spain by Jean Nouvel)
"This too shall pass."
red poppy paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe
Norman Foster
Fondazione Querini Stampalia (Venice, Italy by Carlo Scarpa)
my family
the Holocaust Tower at the Jewish Museum (Berlin, Germany by Daniel Libeskind)
Santiago Calatrava
St. Benedict Chapel (Switzerland by Peter Zumthor)
Hearst Tower (New York, New York by Norman Foster)
traveling
"Work like you don't need the money."
Venice, Italy
Caixa Forum (Madrid, Spain by Herzog & deMeuron)
eating delicious food
Brion Tomb (Italy by Carlo Scarpa)
"Do what you love, love what you do."