Veritas et Venustas"Renewing Tradition for the 21st Century." Keywords: architecture, urbanism, classical architecture, traditional urbanism, New Urbanism, Classical Liberalism, ProgressivismMore from Opening Day- April 16, 2006 Yankees 9 Royals 7http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/04/more_from_openi.html The Garden Conservancy- April 15, 2006 THE GARDEN CONSERVANCY started right here in Cold Spring, New York, fifty miles up the Hudson from Manhattan. They arrange for people to show their gardens every year:their first Open Day in the New York area is one week from today. Look here for a schedule. Here for the printed...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/04/gardens_in_new_.html Manhattan's schist, the Bronx is gneiss- April 15, 2006 Steps in Central Park..http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/04/manhattans_schi.html Blair Kamin: “Architecture Arguments Don't Help Housing”- April 14, 2006 BLAIR KAMIN is the architecture critic for the Chicago Tribune. He wrote the following article for Metropolis, apparently, but I found it at BusinessWeekOnline, which while we weren't looking became an interesting source of information about architecture. Quote here, full article below: Here were the poor New Urbanists staying up...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/04/blair_kamin_arc.html Gentilly Charette Update- April 14, 2006 THE CHARRETTE will be hosted by the Gentilly Civic Improvement Association at St. Leo the Great 2916 Paris Avenue Gentilly, NOLA The opening presentation and first general public meeting will be in the church of St. Leo the Great at 7 pm on Thursday April 20th, and the final presentation...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/04/gentilly_charet.html The Way We Live Now- April 10, 2006 From the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog: The environmentalist aesthetic is to love villages and despise cities. My mind got changed on the subject a few years ago by an Indian acquaintance who told me that in Indian villages the women obeyed their husbands and family elders, pounded grain,...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/04/the_way_we_live.html Gentilly charrette- April 8, 2006 Gentilly six months ago. 2005 Reuters. Some people don't understand. New Orleans had a disaster from which it may never recover. Its citizens are still scattered across the country. Helping New Orleans is not about urbanism versus Starchitecture, New Urbanism versus the avant garde, or style wars. At long...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/04/gentilly_charre.html Toll On Manhattan- April 5, 2006 Toll Bros., the suburban developers who have built more mediocre places than just about anyone, are coming to Manhattan from Polis, via Curbedhttp://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/04/toll_takes_manh.html FEMAville- April 5, 2006 Many of the "temporary" trailers FEMA sent to Florida in 1992 are still in use, and Mississippi and Louisiana face a similar problem. FEMA's already put 1,800 of these trailers in a single trailer ghetto outside Baton Rouge. A Reuters story from New Orleans suggests that city's not going to...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/04/femaville.html Killer Apps- April 3, 2006 THE SMART CODE has been a Killer App for New Urbanism. It looks like the Katrina Cottages will be another one. The newest Katrina Cottage is described here. The latest news is that the US Senate may approve the purchase of tens of thousands of these cottages for disaster victims....http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/04/killer_apps.html |