Veritas et Venustas"Renewing Tradition for the 21st Century." Keywords: architecture, urbanism, classical architecture, traditional urbanism, New Urbanism, Classical Liberalism, ProgressivismDriehaus Winner On The Radio- March 26, 2005 Driehaus winner Quinlan Terry was interviewed by Ed Keegan on 848, a Chicago Public Radio program. You can get the RealAudio file here. (I wish people wouldn't use RealAudio they're a sleazy company with buggy software.)http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2005/03/driehaus_on_the.html Spring Has Sprung VI- March 23, 2005 My Notre Dame architecture studio is two-thirds of the way through their designs for new neighborhood around Yankee Stadium. Shortly after the Yankees start the 2005 season, we'll have 3 masterplans (Yankeeville, The Fan District and Georgetown - above), along with buildings for each: 3 stadiums, 3 types of rowhouses,...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2005/03/spring_has_spru_1.html Spring Has Sprung V- March 23, 2005 SOME BoSox fans have a hard time deciding if they're Sox luvvahs or Yankee hatahs. Eighty-six tragic years produced a fatalism in some that finds it easier to say the Yankees lost than their own team won. When their Super Bowl Dynasty Patriots won again, they immediately chanted "Yankees Suck"...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2005/03/spring_has_spru.html Frank Lloyd Wright, Neo-Classicist- March 22, 2005 On the TradArch List, Andrs Duany wrote, Patrick Pinnell has traced Frank Lloyd Wright's Neo-Classicism precisely. Start with the Field Museum in Chicago (copied virtually directly by Wright in an early unbuilt projects). Squint slightly and you will easily see it as a Prairie School building. That is the key...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2005/03/frank_lloyd_wri.html Uncle Dan Needs You- March 21, 2005 F every town had a man like Dan Camp, America wouldn't be so f'in' ugly Dan's a big ol' good ol' boy straight out of central casting whom I wrote about here. I sent him money here.http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2005/03/uncle_dan_needs.html Location, Location, Location: Kansas or New York- March 20, 2005 From the editor of Reason (of all people): Fewer tax and regulatory hassles and, most important, a tremendously lower cost of living are, in the end, probably not that important to people.... Much of the time, economic freedoms just another word for nothing else to do. Rant: Live Free and...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2005/03/man_bites_dog.html Quinlan Terry Wins Driehaus Prize- March 20, 2005 Photo courtesy of Quinlan and Francis Terry Architects. Quinlan Terry has won the 3rd Annual Driehaus Prize, a $100,000 award for outstanding Classical and Traditional architects (The Anti-Pritzker). The previous winners were Leon Krier and Demetri Porphyrios. I wrote about one of Terry's buildings here.http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2005/03/quinley_terry_w.html Henry Hope Reed Wins Henry Hope Reed Award- March 20, 2005 Many years ago, I was walking down Fifth Avenue when I ran into Leon Krier. "I've just been to see the greatest living American," Leon said. "It was such an honor that he granted me a few minutes of his time." He was talking about Henry Hope Reed. who when...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2005/03/henry_hope_reed.html “Why Architects Give Me The Willies”- March 14, 2005 From D E S I G N O B S E R V E R : All this came back to me while working on an exhibition about British graphic design at the Barbican Centre, London. Called Communicate, it was paired with a Daniel Libeskind retrospective and each exhibition had...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2005/03/ldquowhy_archit.html News From the Front & We've Been Slimed- March 13, 2005 COOPER-UNION STUDENTS TO DEAN, WE'RE MAD An interesting story from The Architect's Newspaper: Last month, Cooper Union architecture dean Anthony Vidler had his hands full with a strange wave of student unrest. First, disgruntled seniors drafted an open letter outlining the 19 qualities they wanted to see in a dean,...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2005/03/news_from_the_f.html |