Veritas et Venustas"Renewing Tradition for the 21st Century." Keywords: architecture, urbanism, classical architecture, traditional urbanism, New Urbanism, Classical Liberalism, ProgressivismIn a poll, over 23,000 people (11%) voted with the Homeowners Association!- November 27, 2006 Subdivision Bans Wreath With Peace Sign Homeowner Defies Board, Faces About $1000 in Fines By Robert Weller, AP AP Handout DENVER (Nov. 26) - A homeowners association in southwestern Colorado has threatened to fine a resident $25 a day until she removes a Christmas wreath with a peace sign...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/11/in_a_poll_over_.html Heroes Fiddle While Home Burns- November 26, 2006 Post-Katrina New Orleans - Illustration 2006 Tulane University Magazine WE'RE coming up on 1 year and 3 months since Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, the city that time forgot. Almost two-thirds of the former residents of the city still have not returned, and many areas of the city continue...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/11/heroes_fiddle_w.html Portland Picks Ugly & Cusato Crits Pitt- November 26, 2006 From the Portland Tribune: Matthew Slick said it straight. The 56-year-old Slick, who works as a data processor for a Pearl District law firm, wrote a letter to the Portland Tribune in response to a recent story that surveyed local architects and city planners on the citys ugliest and most...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/11/portland_picks_.html Tom Wolfe Crits Historic Preservation in New York City- November 26, 2006 The (Naked) City and the Undead The New York Times, Sunday November 26, 2006 By Tom Wolfe CHIN up, tummy out, Aby Rosen, the 46-year-old German developer, owner of the Seagram Building and Lever House, was posing for pictures in front of 980 Madison Avenue barely one month ago when...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/11/tom_wolfe_crits.html CNU Transportation Summit- November 21, 2006 The Congress for the New Urbanism held a transportation meeting in Boulder, Colorado that focused on traffic modeling and street design for pedestrians. Here's what you missed.http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/11/cnu_transportat.html Sun Day- November 19, 2006 THE WEATHER here in Miami is just about perfect today. When we went out for breakfast this morning, there was not a cloud in the sky, the temperature was 70, and the humidity was 35%. It was nice too to finally see a good crowd at the new Le Boudoir,...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/11/sun_day.html WSJ: “Building for Beauty”- November 19, 2006 Building for Beauty Wall Street Journal November 18, 2006; Page P11 By John Massengale The Architecture of Happiness By Alain de Botton Pantheon, 280 pages, $25 CLOSE to halfway through "The Architecture of Happiness," populist philosophe Alain de Botton finally gets to his central point, when he quotes Stendahl: "Beauty...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/11/wsj_building_fo.html An Old Post Repeated: A Sense of Well Being- November 18, 2006 I'm getting a lot of hits becaue of my Wall Street Journal review, so I've put here a related post from the past. Two more are here and here, and there are more over in the column on the left. A room from Dashwood House, my favorite room at the...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/11/an_old_post_rep.html You Learn Something New Every Day (Wine Department)- November 17, 2006 SPANISH RIOJAS can be strongly acidic. But when you eat them with fatty meats like the local ham and sausage, they immediately become smoother and more mellow to their benefit. So you wonder, do they make the wine to suit the local food, or is it just some happy...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/11/you_learn_somet.html “Michael Sorkin Smells the Sulphur of Megacities”- November 15, 2006 A scene from one of the outer planets in Star Wars I AGREE with just about everything Michael Sorkin says, and disagree with almost everything he draws. Click on the picture above and look at the enlarged view of his city on the left: it's a place for Klingons, not...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/11/michael_sorkin_.html |