Veritas et Venustas"Renewing Tradition for the 21st Century." Keywords: architecture, urbanism, classical architecture, traditional urbanism, New Urbanism, Classical Liberalism, ProgressivismArabi I- March 17, 2006 THE FIRST NEWS STORY on the Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company''s Arabi charrette was from The (Baton Rouge) Advocate and Lousiana's Channel 2 News: With the caveat that FEMA has not released its revised flood elevations, a town planner recommended Wednesday night that St. Bernard Parish residents with slab-on-grade brick ranch...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/03/arabi_i.html The Ides of March- March 15, 2006 THERE'S a free, commiserative Caesar salad in the French Quarter tonight for you-know-who. Meanwhile at 6 pm in St. Bernard Parish, DPZ & Co. present their Louisiana Recovery plan for Arabi. From today's Times-Picayune: A weeklong St. Bernard Parish planning exercise comes to a close tonight after more than 1,000...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/03/the_ides_of_mar.html New Orleanians “not waiting to be told what to do”- March 13, 2006 From the New Orleans Times Picayune: Kroloff, an enthusiast of modernist architecture, abhors the "new urbanism" embraced by Duany's team, an architectural style that embraces small-town touches evocative of an earlier era when cars were fewer and urban living less anonymous. Kroloff has made clear that he doesn't want the...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/03/new_orleanians_.html Misrepresenting- March 9, 2006 Dear MR - All joking and jostling aside, we have quite a bit of agreement. You said, I just get tired of the fact the NU proponents to seem to think that the 'enemy' is someone like Kroloff, who isn't actually going to get anything built. Koolhaas has, what, five...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/03/misrepresenting.html Misrepresentin'- March 8, 2006 THE APTLY NAMED Miss Representation commented on this article from Witold Rybczynski: John, what is gained by this bait and switch argument You know well that many of the people who are arguing for less pastiche are doing so not be because they think everyone should spent Peter Lewis amounts...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/03/misrepresentin.html Bradenton Herald: Life After Katrina- March 8, 2006 Mississippians don't want to say it, but they may be lucky that Hurricane Katrina left them with bare slabs rather than piles of toxic rubble as in New Orleans.... The word "charrette" is very popular in southern Mississippi these days, just as it is in Manatee. Charrette is a French...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/03/bradenton_heral.html He Likes Us, He Really Likes Us- March 8, 2006 Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour said Tuesday in his testimony before the Senate Appropriations Committee that Congress should begin a pilot program to build modular housing on the Gulf Coast. As I have testified to the Senate Homeland Security Committee, the federal government needs more options in future hurricanes. Modular housing...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/03/he_likes_us_he_.html We are the very model of the modern middle class is all- March 7, 2006 From Slate: Critics of this approachand so far there have been manymiss the point, however, when they use words like "historicism" and "nostalgia" and call for more cutting-edge designs. New urbanists aren't promoting traditionthey don't have to; American home-buyers made that decision years ago. They prefer houses with pitched roofs,...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/03/we_are_the_very.html EDCOT- March 6, 2006 I DON"T KNOW who made this pdf (a Photoshop reworking of Walt Disney's EPCOT Experimental Planned Community of Tomorrow), but they make a good point. How come the academic critics of New Urbanism scream about "Disneyfication" whenever a new place has a traditional Main Street, but never complain about...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/03/edcot.html Exposing New Orleans academia- March 6, 2006 I WENT TO an academic symposium at Princeton's architecture school Saturday. It was noticeable immediately how many professors wanted to help the residents of New Orleans and their great city. And there was a lot of good talk about public process. IMO, there was a complete disconnect when solutions were...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/03/exposing_new_or.html |