CONTRIBUTORS
Metropolis photo editor Bilyana
Dimitrova shot architect Michael
Bell’s first built project, a Mies-inspired
house in New York’s Hudson Valley, for
“Vanishing Point” (p. 94). Fortuitous
weather allowed her to photograph the
home at different times of the day. “The
compositions were endless,” Dimitrova
says. “The hardest thing about shooting
this house is that you don’t know when
to stop.” She is the author of To Each
His Home, photographs of eight homes
that reflect the unique characters of
their owners, to be published this fall
by Princeton Architectural Press.
For “Predicting the Future” (p. 108) Jayne
Merkel reviewed the recently opened
Eero Saarinen exhibition at Cranbrook Art
Museum, on view through March. Shown
here clutching the Emmy she won for the
documentary film The Gateway Arch: A
Reflection of America, she is the author of
the acclaimed monograph Eero Saarinen
(Phaidon Press). “I only hope that the show,
the books, and the film can generate
enough interest in Saarinen to save some
of his buildings before it is too late,” Merkel
says. She is a contributing editor to AD/
Architectural Design and Architectural Record.
Fred Moody had to travel just two
miles from his Washington home to
explore Island Wood, an environmental
learning center on Bainbridge Island
(“Into the Woods,” p. 70). “I’d heard a lot
about Island Wood but had no idea how
spectacular it is,” he says. “Their archi-
tecture is a great statement about the
possibilities of doing grand projects in
a grandly sustainable way.” The editor
in chief of Rice University Press, he has
written four books about the Pacific
Northwest, most recently Seattle and the
Demons of Ambition (St. Martin’s Press).
Seattle-based photographer Lara
Swimmer documented Island Wood’s
sprawling campus for “Into the Woods”
(p. 70). Though unprepared for the chilly
air on the day of the shoot, she was at
home in the forest. “Island Wood felt very
much like camp,” she says. “I can’t wait
to send my daughter when she grows up!”
Swimmer is working on an art exhibition
titled Palouse Project, a large-scale topo-
graphical mapping in photo montage
of the wheat-growing regions of eastern
Washington and west-central Idaho.
It will be on display at the University of
