Veritas et Venustas"Renewing Tradition for the 21st Century." Keywords: architecture, urbanism, classical architecture, traditional urbanism, New Urbanism, Classical Liberalism, ProgressivismDog Bites Man: Another AIA Award Winner To Meet the Wrecking Ball- December 12, 2006 BOSTON CITY HALL and the Pruitt-Igoe housing complex won national awards from the American Instiute of Architects. The second has been torn down and the first is apparently to be sold, and then torn down. The third thing they have in common is that the architects of both buildings assumed...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/12/dog_bites_man_a.html WSJ: “An American Renaissance Gem”- December 10, 2006 An American Renaissance Gem How an industrialist and his unlikely team built a Miami marvel The Wall Street Journal, December 9, 2006; Page P13 By John Massengale Vizcaya By Witold Rybczynski and Laurie Olin Penn Press, 274 pages, $34.95 Some of our greatest buildings are not as well known as...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/12/wsj_an_american.html 2 different views- December 10, 2006 Steven Greenhut writes in the Orange County Register, I'm referring to the ideology of Smart Growth and New Urbanism. Basically, these philosophies argue that traditional suburbia of the sort that has evolved since the 1950s is a terrible thing. They say it promotes isolation, hopelessness, despair, social turmoil, leads to...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/12/2_different_vie.html |