Veritas et Venustas"Renewing Tradition for the 21st Century." Keywords: architecture, urbanism, classical architecture, traditional urbanism, New Urbanism, Classical Liberalism, ProgressivismA Resident Of The Gulf Shows How Ridiculous Architecture Has Become- February 5, 2006 I've never met Prof. Peronnet, but I'd bet real money that he thinks of himself and his work as liberal and socially progressive. Like many architecture professors, however, he shows a complete disdain for the wishes of the people for whom he's supposed to be working. His rant is an...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/02/a_resident_of_t.html Professor Brain Responds To Professor Perronet- February 5, 2006 IN RESPONSE to Prof. Perronet, Professor Brain (you can't make this stuff up) writes: Before entering into such an ill-conceived rant, an architectural educator really ought to feel some responsibility to be a little more informed with regard to the challenges of providing housing in these devastated towns of the...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/02/professor_brain.html Dog Bites Man! Architecture Professor Attacks New Urbanism!- February 4, 2006 AN ARCHITECTURE PROFESSOR at Hampton University writes: What I could not accept is the DPZ charette response which is represented by the portable cottage. Excuse me here but "what the hell is that!" It is a decorated shed on wheels. IT IS A TRAILER WITH CURTAINS. Why not make the...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/02/dog_bites_man_a.html Zaha! - Once more, with feeling.- February 3, 2006 FEELING is the new black. For the last decade, fashionable architecture has emphasized the importance of theory. At the same time, a movement has been growing to emphasize the importance of experience, feeling and intuition. Donald Norman's Emotional Design, Chris Alexander's The Nature of Order and Yodan Rofe's studies on...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/02/zaha_once_more_.html Prof. Kroloff Can Boo, Can You<br >A Louisiana Tale from Urbanist Seuss- February 2, 2006 New Urbanism "is a very conservative, very waspy ideology," said Reed Kroloff, dean of the Tulane University School of Architecture and head of a New Orleans rebuilding committee. "There's no doubt that a fair amount of New Urbanist principles have found their way into the embrace of the American right....http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/02/prof_kroloff_ca.html Reed won't like this one either.- February 1, 2006 From the architecture critic of the Providence Journal: If a plan for rebuilding Mississippi's Gulf Coast envisioned by the Congress for the New Urbanism ever becomes reality, the place will be nothing short of paradise. Registration required to read the Providence Journal online. Complete article below.http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/02/reed_wont_like_.html Mississippi Press: “A Bright Future”- February 1, 2006 Poor Reed. Anthony Topazi... president and chief executive officer of Mississippi Power, was chairman of the infrastructure committee on the Governor's Commission on Recovery, Rebuilding and Renewal. He was so tied up in the workings of his committee and its three subcommittees, that he never got the opportunity to learn...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/02/mississippi_pre.html |