Veritas et Venustas"Renewing Tradition for the 21st Century." Keywords: architecture, urbanism, classical architecture, traditional urbanism, New Urbanism, Classical Liberalism, ProgressivismOn New Urbanism: An Open Letter to Professor Angotti- July 7, 2006 Dear Professor Angotti, I recently read your tribute to Jane Jacobs at the Gotham Gazette. I don't understand why a memorial tribute to the great urbanist includes gratuitous and inaccurate slurs against New Urbanism. You wrote, The New Urbanism is a recent trend in urban planning and architecture that proposes...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/07/an_open_letter_.html FILM: An Inconvenient Truth- July 6, 2006 AL GORE, the inventor of Global Warming, has made a very good movie about Global Warming. It's a part of the growing awareness that Global Warming is as important as any issue we face. The movie isn't deep, but it's broad and well done: because of its breadth, almost everyone...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/07/film_an_inconve.html The Front Door Test- July 4, 2006 We shape our buildings and thereafter they shape us. Winston Churchill If your front door opens onto a sidewalk, you're probably a Democrat. If your front door is more than 25' from your street, you're probably a Republican. There is some logic to this: the city street brings us...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/07/republicans_dem.html Quote of the Day - Blue By You- July 3, 2006 On the one hand, we're impressed that the Lower East Side's newest horror tower BLUE seems to actually look like its renderings. On the other hand it seems to actually look like its renderings. from Gothamisthttp://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/07/quote_of_the_da_1.html NOLA: “Do They Play Jazz In Heaven”- July 3, 2006 http:www.neworleansonline.comhttp://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/07/nola_do_they_pl.html Meanwhile, back on Earth...- July 2, 2006 HURRICANE KATRINA hit New Orleans 10 months ago. For the last 6 months, at least, New Orleans has had a bigger problem than Katrina: the number of architects and planners in New Orleans who will fight to stop reconstruction planning from moving ahead if someone else is getting the work....http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/07/planning_proble.html Waveland, MS- July 2, 2006 WE HELD A SMALL CHARRETTE for Waveland, Mississippi last week, following up on the big charrette for the MIssissippi Gulf Coast in October. A lot has happened since October, with Mississippi agencies hiring good people and doing some good work, but you can't tell that by looking around Waveland, which...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/07/waveland.html Art Deco Tub for Sale- July 2, 2006 I'VE been toting this cast-iron corner tub around for years. It came out of a house I restored: an 18th century Connecticut house moved to Pound Ridge, New York in 1928, that I bought in 1986. But last week we sold our most recent house in Bedford and now only...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/07/art_deco_tub_fo.html Saturday Afternoon: Water Taxi Beach- July 2, 2006 IT'S BETTER IN CONCEPT than execution. The hot dog shack at the Water Taxi Beach looks like something the Little Rascals built, the whole thing is small and cramped, surrounded by a ragged chain-link fence, and who wants to bake on beach if you can't go in the water Not...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/07/saturday_aftern.html |