Ed Kopel, Architect, P.C.

11/24/2025

Did you say Vantablack?! aia

10/18/2025

NYC No Kings.

05/15/2025

Valencia

04/22/2024

Do not open the attachment you received from me today. I’ve been hacked!

12/23/2021

Shibuya Station, Tokyo, Tomoyuki Tanaka.

Proof that freehand drawing is thinking.

12/22/2021

Watch out Exploiters!
I suffered through it and am pained it still occurs.

Saying they are overworked and underpaid, architects at a prominent New York firm want to unionize. Others could follow.

12/07/2021

In Engelshut (In Angel’s Hat)
Paul Klee, 1931

Lines that make space.
Figures that emote.
Light but haunting.

11/23/2021

Laszlo Maholy-Nagy
Self Portrait, 1918
He worked in many media. His work could be realistic, expressive, abstract, or surreal. Brilliance and breadth.

11/08/2021

Bullet through Banana. Harold Eugene Edgerton. 1903-1990. Dye imbibition print.

An MIT professor, inventor, and a businessman, Edgerton claimed that his lifework was driven by the insights and questions surrounding "the experience of seeing the unseen." This image comes from a series capturing the exact moment a bullet pierces a piece of fruit— an instant too brief to be seen by the naked eye and that would otherwise have escaped perception.

11/03/2021

Double Portrait, Photogram, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, 1927

I am just beginning to understand Moholy – Nagy’s brilliant versatility.
Painting, drawing, sculpture, and photography.
Organic, figurative, abstract, graphic.

11/01/2021

Glad I got to see the the Philip Guston show at Hauser &Worth on its last day. Macabre work to say the least. Lots of blood red and a rainbow of pinks. Guston says, “The things I felt... about certain painters of the past that... inspired me, like Cezanne and Manet... that complete losing of oneself in the work to such an extent that the work itself... felt as if a living organism was posited there on the canvas, on this surface... That's truly... the act of creation.”
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10/25/2021

“Joe” Chair, 1966
Jonathan de Pas, Donato d’Urbino, and Paolo Lomazzi

A cozy nostalgic cradle

Soft, not hard
Smooth, not rough
Round, not square