Veritas et Venustas"Renewing Tradition for the 21st Century." Keywords: architecture, urbanism, classical architecture, traditional urbanism, New Urbanism, Classical Liberalism, ProgressivismGovernator Redux- August 31, 2004 Click on image to enlarge. Cartoon from Derfcity.Let's face it. E-mail and the internet are impromptu, reactive and often one sided. I know Kirk Watson, who left a comment on my blog, and whom I'm responding to here. Because I know Kirk, I know this isn't a Jihad. But there's...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/08/governator_redu.html The Wow Factor Meets the Bow Wow Factor- August 30, 2004 When the British government proposed banning traditionally designed new country houses, I wrote about UK Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott's Wow Factor and CNU President John Norquist's Bow Wow Factor. Now another of the unusual juxtapositions I talked about in the post has come up in the UK: the government...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/08/the_wow_factor_.html Paving America- August 29, 2004 Michael Blowhard has an interesting post about the interstate highway system at 2blowhards. The highway system was the both the most expensive public works project in the history of the world and the world's biggest social experiment modern suburbia and sprawl couldn't have happened without it. Not many know...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/08/michael_blowhar.html New York, New York — Photos- August 28, 2004 I've put some new pictures in my New York photo album: click here to see them. They're from a recent visit to Vinegar Hill, a small neighborhood in Brooklyn between the Navy Yard and DUMBO. Like most of the waterfront in Brooklyn facing Manhattan, it was developed in the 1840s,...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/08/new_york_new_yo.html The Use of Proportion- August 28, 2004 Click on the photo for a larger image.Proportion is one of the most important properties of Traditional and Classical architecture. I plan to post some more on the topic in the coming weeks. For now, on vacation, I post an interesting post to the TradArch list by my friend and...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/08/the_use_of_prop.html Important New Book<br>The Architecture of the Classical Interior- August 20, 2004 This brand new book is one of the best on the Classical interior. There haven't been many, and this is one of the few by an architect rather than a decorator or an historian which gives it a very different emphasis. Steve, a longtime instructor at Classical America and...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/08/important_new_b.html Slow Food: Slow, The Magazine- August 18, 2004 The huge Whole Foods at Columbus Circle in Manhattan is selling copies of Slow, the international herald of tastes. Apparently a few food stores and book shops in America buy copies for resale. It's worth looking for those if you're interested in finding out about the Slow Food movement. Alternatively,...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/08/slow_food_slow_.html More on Country House Ban- August 16, 2004 On the story about the British government banning the construction of Traditional new country houses, there's an update from Building Design online (requires free registration): Traditionalists outraged as government insists on rural modernism By Zo Blackler The government has hit back at claims made by traditionalists this week that it...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/08/more_on_country.html Governor Schwarzenegger<br>Is Driving Illegally- August 16, 2004 Many of California's towns and cities prohibit 3-ton trucks from using many of their streets. That includes all the big SUV's (see list below) classified as trucks in order to get benefits from the IRS, the state DOTs and the EPA. Those benefits are often worth $30,000, and can be...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/08/governor_schwar.html Architecture Today & The Tolstoy Syndrome Redux- August 16, 2004 The corollary to the Tolstoy Syndrome:When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/08/architecture_to_1.html |