B. Alexandra Szerlip was a two-time National Endowment for the Arts Writing Fellow. When she’s not working on her Bel Geddes biography, she’s writing about nineteenth-century Oriental rugs. Her mixed-media sculpture can be seen at www.redroom.com.

• FULL TEXT
  May 2012: Colossal in Scale, Appalling in Complexity
  The tiny, meticulous re-creations of golf courses, racetracks, and the fields of war that were the precursors of a sweeping view of the future