Veritas et Venustas"Renewing Tradition for the 21st Century." Keywords: architecture, urbanism, classical architecture, traditional urbanism, New Urbanism, Classical Liberalism, ProgressivismArchitorture- December 19, 2004 We think of all the buildings that try to be well mannered, that don't strive, that don't attempt to create a new future," says Joe Valerio, one of the architects whose work is included in Chicago Architecture: Ten Visions, a new exhibit that's on display at the Art Institute through...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/12/architorture.html A good book I've just started . . .- December 19, 2004 Nikos Salingaros is the mathematician and architectural theorist at the University of Texas. His new book, with contributions from Christopher Alexander and Michael Mehaffy, promises to be very good. You can also read some of his work at 2blowhards.com.http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/12/a_good_book_ive.html V et V Comments: New Urbanism- December 19, 2004 From the Real Estate: Quantity v Quality comments, Clarence wrote, Second, you say that "New Urbanism has tried to sell quality rather than quantity." There is nothing inherent in New Urbanism that prohibits a builder of terrible quality from planning and building a shoddy New Urbanist community. Let's not mix...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/12/v_amp_v_comment_1.html Things Are Looking UP- December 15, 2004 In the 70s there was a brief period of light when we blew up bad buildings. Most of them were widely admired by architects, like the AIA Gold Medal winning Pruitt-Igoe, designed by the architect of the World Trade Center, and the RIBA Gold Medal winning Runcorn Housing by James...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/12/things_are_look.html All's Well That Ends Well- December 15, 2004 Pale Male and Lola are reportedly getting a new architect designed penthouse in an exclusive Upper East Side co-op (they turned down Barbra Streisand) w Prk Vu. More importantly, kudos to the 927 Fifth Avenue for Doing the Right Thing. Pale Male and Lola are two of the most popular...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/12/alls_well_that_.html CNN Family Values<br>They never mention Paula Zahn.- December 13, 2004 TRANSCRIPT: CNN'S American Morning December 9 CAFFERTY: Pale Male and Lola are a pair of famous and well liked red-tail hawks here in New York City, who have lived for a number of years at the top of a high rise building on Fifth Avenue, which is where a lot...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/12/cnn_family_valu.html Pale Male Family Values<br>CNN Rally Monday Morning- December 12, 2004 Four hours after today's rally there were still 150 or more people on the sidewalk across from 927 Fifth Avenue (QuickTime video here). They were chanting No Nest, No Rest and holding up signs saying "Honk for the Hawks." The residents of 927 must be very tired of the honking....http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/12/family_values.html Pale Male Ale & Rat TartareRally At Noon- December 12, 2004 It used to be so much simpler. There weren't so many blogs that you couldn't find your way back to where you'd read something. Somebody has reported that a downtown bar is serving Pale Male Pale Ale in honor of the Hawk of the Century, but I'll be damned if...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/12/pale_male_pale_.html No Soup For 927 Fifth!- December 9, 2004 What are the most popular animals in Manhattan The tens of thousands of Labradors luxuriously lolling around the city's streets No, it's the hawks and falcons who've come back to the city in the last decade. New Yorkers love to watch them majestically killing pigeons in the park. So THREE...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/12/no_soup_for_927.html UPDATE: No Soup For 927 Fifth!- December 9, 2004 You can count on Curbed: their ever-growing Who's Who At 927 Fifth Avenue reveals that celebrity newscaster Paula Zahn is married to the President of the Co-op, and that other residents include Lazard chief Bruce Wasserstein, shoe maven Kenneth Cole and his wife, homeless advocate (for humans), Maria Cuomo Cole...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/12/update_no_soup_.html |