Veritas et Venustas"Renewing Tradition for the 21st Century." Keywords: architecture, urbanism, classical architecture, traditional urbanism, New Urbanism, Classical Liberalism, ProgressivismArchitecture Students Gone Wild- January 6, 2006 Over at 2Blowhards, Donald Blowhard wrote a post about "Architecture 'Worth A Journey'" that prompted me to dig out an old e-mail about architecture students: The Columbia students all took the same plane to Luxembourg, where they rented a van for the drive to Rome, where we had to be...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/01/architecture_st.html Name That Neighborhood- January 4, 2006 Another Mystery Neighborhood: click here for more photos. You need to identify the neighborhood, because naming the city is not good enough (and way too easy). Particularly for my brother and Victor Deupi, who are not allowed to enter the contest. I'll put up more photos after some one gets...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/01/name_that_neigh.html Carmine Street, NYC- January 3, 2006 What a wonderful street Carmine is. It doesn't have the picturesque qualities of narrower Greenwich Village streets like Bedford or the kinks of Morton or Grove, but it has its own charms. It's short (2 12 blocks long), broad, sunny and close to the West 4th Street subway station, but...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/01/carmine_street.html |