Showing posts with label Roger K. Lewis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Roger K. Lewis. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 09, 2024

WaPo architectural cartoonist Roger K. Lewis RIP

Roger K. Lewis, architect who explored the capital with wry eye, dies at 83

For more than 30 years, Mr. Lewis's Shaping the City column and his drawings in The Washington Post tracked the region's evolution.

October 8, 2024 

...The subjects could often be weighty, but Mr. Lewis approached them with a distinctive wit that was distilled in his sketches — usually one-panel cartoons with commentary that carried a bite but was never mean.... In one drawing, a couple drives down a street with a moving trailer in tow. "Finally," one says. "Northern Virginia." The other replies: "And what a relief! It looks like northern New Jersey." In 2001, he sketched two people looking at a D.C. rail expansion plan. An idea pops up for financing: Tax all the property owners whose names contain any of the letters M, E, T, R and O.

Wednesday, October 08, 2014

Oct 29: Roger K. Lewis cartoon exhibit opens

Exhibition Opening Reception - 30 Years of "Shaping the City" Cartoons by Roger K. Lewis, FAIA

Wednesday, October 29, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
District Architecture Center, 421 7th Street NW, Washington, DC 20004

Price: Free. Registration required. 

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Join AIA|DC in the SIGAL and Sorg Galleries for an engaging and entertaining exhibition of Roger K. Lewis, FAIA's cartoon collection from his "Shaping the City" column in the Washington Post. Each cartoon shares engaging and often comedic stories about changing attitudes and shifting cultures in the architectural profession and in everyday life around the Capital.
 
Roger K. Lewis, FAIA, is a practicing architect and urban planner; a professor emeritus of architecture at the University of Maryland, College Park; and an author and journalist.

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