Veritas et Venustas"Renewing Tradition for the 21st Century." Keywords: architecture, urbanism, classical architecture, traditional urbanism, New Urbanism, Classical Liberalism, ProgressivismWish I Were There- February 28, 2006 Party on NOLA! Be excellent to each other.http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/02/wish_i_were_the.html This Is Not A Joke- February 28, 2006 Click here for larger image. Reed Kroloff and his avant garde friends had a small charrette in Starchitect-friendly Holland to show New Orleans what they should do. Now they have an exhibit called Newer Orleans. His 15 minutes are up Never Orleans, is what the New Orleanians wil say....http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/02/this_is_not_a_j.html UPDATED: For those who don't understand the Transect...- February 24, 2006 You can download the PowerPoint presentation, complete with notes, by clicking here. (NB: The file is 14 MB.) Click here for larger image. Here are some notes from my talk at the Prince's Foundation on the SmartCode and the Transect: The idea of the Transect comes from the environmental movement....http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/02/for_those_who_d.html “This is not a criticism to be cast aside lightly. It should be hurled with great force.” (With apologies to Dorothy Parker)- February 24, 2006 People sometimes wonder why I can be so critical of contemporary Modernists (as opposed to plain old Modernism, which I like). The following gossip from the Architect's Newspaper, a bimonthly I often read, shows some of the reasons why. Faced with the success of New Urbanism, some ideological Modernists throw...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/02/this_is_not_a_c.html Utopia or Dystopia The choice is yours.- February 16, 2006 "He Louis I. Kahn told me: Philadelphia was a city where a small boy could find out what he would do for the rest of his life." Nathaniel Kahn, My Architect Alvin Boyarsky, former head of the Architectural Association (where Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas and so many other avantgardists...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/02/utopia_or_dysto.html C'mon down- February 15, 2006 Creating a Civic Realm 21st February 2006 The Prince's Foundation London EC2 09h00 - 17h00 0 207 613 8548 download the flyer I'll be speaking.http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/02/cmon_down.html New York Times on New Urbanism- February 15, 2006 The New York Times architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussof may hate New Urbanism (And how odd is that, that a newspaper's cultural critic is so strongly biased), but a story in the Health section today talks about grants given to New Urban developments like Stapleton: Thanks to the post-World War II...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/02/new_york_times_.html Prof. Frampton Calls New Urbanism “ersatz kitsch colonialism for the modern middle class”- February 9, 2006 When faced with the line "ersatz kitsch colonialism for the modern middle class what can one do except write lyrics to the tune of I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General from The Pirates of Penzance The lyrics need the music to work you can listen...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/02/prof_frampton_c.html Sun Herald Publisher: New Urbanist Planning Essential To Gulf Rebuilding- February 7, 2006 From Planetizen: Ricky Mathews, Publisher of the Biloxi Sun Herald and Vice-Chairman of the Governor's Commission on Recovery, Rebuilding, and Renewal after Hurricane Katrina, argues that Andres Duany and other New Urbanists have been critical to the early success of rebuilding efforts in Mississippi, providing citizens not only with the...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/02/sun_herald_publ.html Philadelphia Inquirer: Katrina Cottage “beautiful and livable”- February 5, 2006 From Making much of little, For hurricane victims, cottages that are compact, but also livable and beautiful": Housing is part of the renewal plan, and the idea behind Katrina Cottage 1 is to provide real, rather than temporary, housing to help people feel as if things are getting back to...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/02/philadelphia_in.html |