Veritas et Venustas"Renewing Tradition for the 21st Century." Keywords: architecture, urbanism, classical architecture, traditional urbanism, New Urbanism, Classical Liberalism, ProgressivismQuote of the Day- February 22, 2005 "New York's loss is Los Angeles's gain." Los Angeles architect Stefanos Polyzoides, after Herbert Muschamp hand-picked Nicolai Ouroussoff, the architecture critic of the Los Angeles Times, to succeed him as the architecture critic of the New York Times.http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2005/02/quote_of_the_da.html Randal O'Tool & Bunkogenicism- February 22, 2005 Over at the City Comforts blog, my friend David Sucher has been writing about Randal O'Tool's "crimogenics" in Reason and O'Tool has responded. Click here for David's post, and here for O'Tool's response. I said something here. There are numerous links here and here.http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2005/02/randal_otool_am.html Cliche of the Day- February 20, 2005 "The best architects working today grasp that it is possible to be respectful of context and history without mimicking it; and, what's more, that mimicking the past only serves to dilute its meaning." Herbert Lite, in the New York Times Which of these two new university buildings do you...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2005/02/cliche_of_the_d.html NU Quotes of the Day- February 20, 2005 An article in today's New York Times called Why New Urbanism Isn't For Everyone says, Building industry estimates put the share of New Urban homes at up to 10 percent of all new homes sold annually, depending on how these communities are defined. That's interesting, since less than 2 years...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2005/02/nu_quotes_of_th.html UPDATED:Slow Food, South Bend, Yuppies & Chicago- February 17, 2005 Nota Bene: A reader from South Bend thought the post that follows was an attack on South Bend and Michiana (see the comments after the post). That's not true, for two reasons. First of all, I'm really enjoying my time at Notre Dame's architecture school. Second, I haven't had a...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2005/02/slow_food_south.html Classicists in The Times- February 10, 2005 Today's New York Times story about the Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America has the mandatory "stodgy" references, but "just so they spell your name right" has always worked for Bob Stern, and the news about the Institute's work with the NEA and Habitat for Humanity will surprise many:...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2005/02/classicists_in_.html Job Opening: Director of Academic Programs at the Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America- February 10, 2005 Announcement The leading national nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the practice and appreciation of the classical tradition, ICA&CA seeks an individual who has established himself or herself as a leader in classical design pedagogy in architecture andor its allied arts for the position of director of academic programs beginning July...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2005/02/job_opening_dir.html Conspicuous Consumption for the 21st Century- February 10, 2005 THE tallest buildings in the world are a pair of towers in Malaysia, the 1,483 foot tall Petronas Towers. The Empire State Building is 1,250 feet tall. The newest Bling Bling for the extravagantly rich is a 1,000 foot tall pile of 10 $35,000,000 townhomes-in-the-sky, approved yesterday by the New...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2005/02/conspicuous_con.html Reason sic magazine- February 8, 2005 Reason is a Libertarian magazine that specializes in mad-dog attacks on "conventional wisdom" (read, people they disagree with). They're friendly with the Libertarian Sprawl Lobby that bizarrely argues that sprawl a product subsidized by the interstate highway system, the most expensive public works project in the history of the...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2005/02/reason_sic_maga.html BHG: American Homeowners' Wish List- February 7, 2005 Approximately 5% of new construction in the US today is New Urban. As much as 90% is sprawl, the antithesis of New Urban. But according to a 60,000-reader survey in Better Homes & Gardens, 88% of survey respondents said that "a neighborhood that's walkable" is important to them more so,...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2005/02/ibhgi_american_.html |