Veritas et Venustas"Renewing Tradition for the 21st Century." Keywords: architecture, urbanism, classical architecture, traditional urbanism, New Urbanism, Classical Liberalism, ProgressivismNU Mystery Towns- January 14, 2007 NAME these NU mystery towns. No entries from people who've been to them, please. Click on the photos for larger versions.http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/01/nu_mystery_town.html Visiting Nashville- January 14, 2007 I like to stay in room 530 in the converted Union Station it's one of the rooms under the arches in the photo below. But Wyndham has bought the hotel and is remodeling it, so the hotel was full when I tried to get a good walk-in rate. If...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/01/visiting_nashvi.html Visiting Birmingham, Alabama- January 14, 2007 STAY at the Tutwiler. Eat in Five Points. If you want to splurge, eat at the Highlands Bar & Grill.http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/01/visiting_birmin.html Today - Old Alabama Town- January 12, 2007 Old Alabama Town is a collection of old buildings that have been moved to a few blocks in Montgomery, Alabama. Most have old paint that seems to speak to you about everything the buildings have seen over the years. Later on today, the real thing.http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/01/today_old_alaba.html Bizarro New York- January 12, 2007 UPDATE: Avant-garde my ass. C'est Nouvel.http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/01/bizarro_new_yor.html Seaside This Morning- January 10, 2007 I HAVE to get my car from my teaching job at the University of Miami to my teaching job at Notre Dame, and I've stopped at Seaside for a few days on the way.http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/01/seaside_this_mo.html On the road to South Bend- January 9, 2007http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/01/on_the_road_to_.html WSJ Vizcaya review- January 4, 2007 Reprinted with permission of The Wall Street Journal 2006 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All rights reserved.. Text here. I will post Vizcaya photos within a few days.http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/01/wsj_vizcaya_rev.html WSJ Alain de Botton review- January 4, 2007 Reprinted with permission of The Wall Street Journal 2006 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All rights reserved. TEXT here.http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/01/wsj_alain_de_bo.html |