Veritas et Venustas"Renewing Tradition for the 21st Century." Keywords: architecture, urbanism, classical architecture, traditional urbanism, New Urbanism, Classical Liberalism, ProgressivismGoin to the matinee- November 5, 2005 IT'S my wife's birthday. We're going to hear Mozart's Marriage of Figaro at the Met. Click here to hear Non pi andrai.http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2005/11/goin_to_the_mat.html Aaargh (Auto Sewers)- November 5, 2005 Narrow sidewalks and one-way traffic = Auto Sewer. 89th & Lex in 1913 & today. from Starts and Fits, via Bird from the Northhttp://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2005/11/aaargh_auto_sew.html Extraterrestial NASA Exchange Guangzhou Conference Center- November 4, 2005 Close Encounters of the Worst Kind When architecture critics and professors mock the nostalgia of New Urbanism, they're calling for nostalgic versions of the future like this award winning, Neo-Spielberg design for a new conference center in Guangzhou, China. Name the architects and win an all-expenses paid trip to Guangzhou,...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2005/11/extraterrestial.html Life's A Blog- November 2, 2005 Last night at 288 Tom & Jerry's, a bar on Elizabeth just north of Houston (that's "HOWston," for non-New Yorkers), there was a meeting of New York design bloggers. A good time was had by all. I finally got to meet the great Lockhart Steele, of Curbed Fame and...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2005/11/lifes_a_blog.html British Survey Confirms the Obvious- November 1, 2005 Even without Brad, Cameron, Lenny and George,http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2005/11/british_survey_.html |