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Architects, artists, and even an adventurer turned out for the launch of Travis Price’s exciting new book, The Archaeology of Tomorrow: Architecture and the Spirit of Place, at Contemporaria in Georgetown. Deborah Kalkstein, owner of the ultra modern furniture store, transformed her showroom into an auditorium where Price gave a slide presentation that made guests dream. He takes architecture and the discussion of it into a poetic realm.
“Ideas make you go places,” says Price, who has built shrines in such exotic sites as Kathmandu and Machu Picchu. “You have to understand that architecture is not just function, nor cost, nor geography, it is about the poetics. There’s poetry behind it. It’s a language we’ve suppressed in a modern world.”
“Travis has the wit of a leprechaun and the wisdom of Plato,” Wade Davis, a National Geographic explorer, says of his longtime friend.
Even with 130 chairs set up, people were standing and waiting to come in from Cady’s Alley to the book party, which was sponsored by Contemporaria, the American Institute of Architects, DC, Washington Spaces, Leopold’s Kafé, and All Around Technology.
