Veritas et Venustas"Renewing Tradition for the 21st Century." Keywords: architecture, urbanism, classical architecture, traditional urbanism, New Urbanism, Classical Liberalism, ProgressivismTwo Worlds- May 9, 2005 Over the weekend, Herb Jr. (aka Nicolai Ouroussoff, Herbert Muschamp's handpicked successor at the New York Times) wrote in the paper's weekly architecture column: The new Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, designed by Peter Eisenman, is the apotheosis of this soul-searching. A vast grid of 2,711 concrete pillars...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2005/05/two_worlds.html Image of the Day- May 9, 2005 A LOFT BUILDING designed by Maria Minondo for the Yankee Stadium Studio I taught at Notre Dame ("It's Not A Parking Problem, It's An Urban Design Problem"). I'll post some more of these in the next week or two.http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2005/05/image_of_the_da.html A Question for Curbed and its readers- May 7, 2005 DOWNTOWN NEW YORK is cool and sexy. There are lots of minimalist bars like Essex on Essex, and neo-Modern bistros like Schiller's. My question is, How does architecture, and architectural style, fit into this for Curbed readers In architecture school and the architectural press, there are ideological style wars going...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2005/05/a_question_for_.html Oh No- May 7, 2005 My favorite blog (well, one of them) thinks I'm part of the problem. Okay, talking about THOR, maybe I should have written, "makes us feel good," instead of "makes me feel good." Because I really was trying to make a bigger point than me, me, me. (And, hey, Mrs. Steele...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2005/05/oh_no.html The Way They Build In Las Vegas- May 4, 2005 Venice-worshiper and wallpaper-designer John Ruskin would be mortified by the peeling facade on The Venetian.http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2005/05/the_way_they_bu.html Misanthropic Marxist Political Correctness- May 3, 2005 There's been a discussion of Political Correctness on one of the New Urbanism mail lists (prompted by Jim Kunstler saying The Long Emergency is going to be a bitch slap for the American public). A planning professor wrote, Congratulations, you have been successfully won over by the anti-PC backlash that...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2005/05/misanthropic_ma.html |