Veritas et Venustas"Renewing Tradition for the 21st Century." Keywords: architecture, urbanism, classical architecture, traditional urbanism, New Urbanism, Classical Liberalism, ProgressivismWhere to give money for tsunami victims- December 31, 2004 INTBAU has made a list of organizations taking donations: click here.http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/12/where_to_give_m.html Santa Fe Airport- December 31, 2004 his is the passenger deplaning arrival point and airport baggage retrieval area at the Santa Fe airport, designed by Santa Fe architect John Gaw Meem. It's another airport that shows that the International Style is not necessarily the best way to design an airport. It's logical to say that high-tech...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/12/santa_fe_airpor.html My last post this yearOn Pale Male & Lola- December 29, 2004 Pale Male and Lola are building their nest in their architect designed penthouse. Good news.http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/12/my_last_post_th.html Duany On the Avante-Garde- December 29, 2004 From the New Discourse list: The problem inherent in the contemporary architectural situation is not that it is modern, but that it is avant garde. The relentless pursuit of the unprecedented undermines two essential roles of architecture: the collective endeavor that is required for an urbanism; and the establishment of...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/12/duany_on_the_av.html Season's Greetings- December 25, 2004 When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. John Muir, Sierra Club founder P e a c e & L o v e i n t h e N e w Y e a rhttp://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/12/quotwhen_we_try.html ARCH DSGND PH, PK VU -<br>Pale Male & Lola's New Nest- December 25, 2004 The elevation of the stainless steel frame for the new nest at 927 Fifth Avenue.http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/12/archtctdsgnd_ph.html Two Sides of the Same Coin- December 19, 2004 I find Christopher Hitchens' smugness and disdain hard to take, particularly since it comes with a lot of esoteric-English-elite-reformed-socialist baggage that I don't understand. I stopped reading him a long time ago, but read his New York Times book review today, Where Aquarius Went, because I was interested in the...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/12/two_sides_of_th.html Insular Architecture Schools- December 19, 2004 There is no more insular, esoteric world than the elite architecture school today. With Modernism dead (no less an authority than Rem Koolhaas tells us), parts of the academy defend it with the fervor of a Stalinist or Al Qaeda. This parallels the situation in the other liberal arts departments...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/12/there_is_no_mor.html |