Veritas et Venustas"Renewing Tradition for the 21st Century." Keywords: architecture, urbanism, classical architecture, traditional urbanism, New Urbanism, Classical Liberalism, Progressivism(Untitled)- October 7, 2004 I don't know why I haven't heard of this before, but I want to go see it. I read about it on Neil Takemoto's CoolTown Studios blog. His post is repeated here in toto: What the $! Do We Know! No, I'm not going obscene, this is the title of...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/10/how_come_i_have.html RPA reports LMDC ignores residents' wishes at Ground Zero- October 6, 2004 We now live in the 21st century. Why is the self-proclaimed avant-garde architectural critic of the New York Times, Herbert Muschamp, trying to force the rebuilding of the World Trade Center to be limited to the tired dogma of the late 19th and early 20th centuries More importantly, why does the Lower Manhattan Development Corporations list of six architects newly selected to prepare designs for the World Trade Center site correspond so closely to Muschamps limited list The public has...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/10/rpa_reports_tha.html The LMDC doesn't listen What else is new- October 6, 2004 We now live in the 21st century. Why is the self-proclaimed avant-garde architectural critic of the New York Times, Herbert Muschamp, trying to force the rebuilding of the World Trade Center to be limited to the tired dogma of the late 19th and early 20th centuries More importantly, why does the Lower Manhattan Development Corporations list of six architects newly selected to prepare designs for the World Trade Center site correspond so closely to Muschamps limited list The public has...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/10/what_else_is_ne.html And you think you've got it bad . . .- October 6, 2004 Real estate development is a risky business, and every developer I know has tales of woe. (Of course many are crying all the way to the bank, but that's another story.) Ron Herscho, head of GDY Properties in Queens, paid $1.6 million for an overgrown lot in Ozone Park, Queens...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/10/and_you_think_y.html Photos of Claude-Nicolas Ledoux's Saline Royale d'Arc et Senans & Le Corbusier's Chappelle de Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp- October 4, 2004 In January 2002, we drove from Munich to Paris, with short stays in Baden-Baden and Besanon. The Roman baths in Baden Baden were wonderful, but that's for another post. I've posted a new photo album showing two important but little-visited architectural landmarks we saw near Besanon: Claude-Nicolas Ledoux's Royal Salt...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/10/photos_of_la_sa.html NU in Ohio- October 4, 2004 Here's a story on New Urbanism in Ohio, with links to more.http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/10/nu_in_ohio.html Pastiche- October 1, 2004 Click here or on the photo to enlarge. he word of the year in English architectural criticism seems to be "pastiche." The word alone is often thought to be sufficient to dismiss any new traditional building as worthy of discussion. On the left is one of these New Traditional buildings,...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/10/pastiche.html Novelty- October 1, 2004 Click here or on the photo to enlarge. Buildings that lean! Buildings on stilts! Did grown men make these things!! (Click here or on the photo to enlarge the image above is too small to see it well.) The Nero-Modernism that dominates academia and the architectural press wants novelty....http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/10/novelty.html |