Brooks Kolb

Brooks Kolb is a Seattle writer, artist, and a landscape architect.

Category: Commentary

In Memoriam: Sherry Markovitz

Story by Dennis M., edited by Brooks Sherry Markovitz, our dear friend and next-door neighbor, was one of the Pacific Northwest’s most talented and prominent

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The Architect Personality

Keith R. Kolb, FAIA The following essay pursues some of the themes I explore in my forthcoming memoir, LANDSCAPE IN LAVENDER: A YOUNG MAN’S SEARCH

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A Visit to Assisi

The following is another excerpt deleted from my memoir, LANDSCAPE IN LAVENDER, which will be published by Spark Press in June, 2026. Toward the end

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The Allure of Palm Springs

The Allure of Palm Springs Nearly two hours into one’s drive eastwards from Los Angeles on Route 10, the freeway speeds through dry desert flanked

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Century 21: Jet City

Century 21:  Jet City I was an excited nine-year-old boy when my parents led my brother and me up to one of the carefully guarded

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Ten Arthur’s Round Table

In this fourth installment of passages that I cut from my memoir, LANDSCAPE IN LAVENDER, my unofficial college advisor, the highly esteemed Dr. Paul J.

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