Veritas et Venustas"Renewing Tradition for the 21st Century." Keywords: architecture, urbanism, classical architecture, traditional urbanism, New Urbanism, Classical Liberalism, ProgressivismDog Bites Man It couldn't happen to a nicer pair- November 28, 2007 Lizz and Andrs with Ted, the brother of Bud and Frank Chicago Tribune: Controversial urbanists win top architecture award I HAVE a Starchitecture story I can't tell in public, because it names too many names in one short anecdote. The gist of the story is how hard it is to...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/11/it-couldnt-happ.html UPDATED: “Exxon Accused of Trying to Mislead Public” on Global Warming- November 26, 2007 UPDATE: From the Guardian: The denial industry For years, a network of fake citizens' groups and bogus scientific bodies has been claiming that science of global warming is inconclusive. They set back action on climate change by a decade. But who funded them Exxon's involvement is well known, but not...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/11/ny-times-exxon.html It's The Place, Stupid! (with explanation, below)- November 23, 2007 THANKS to some YouTube videos, I think I finally understand the problem surrounding the New Acropolis Museum in Athens. A lovely street has had a cancerous hole torn in it so that there will be an unobstructed view of the Acropolis from Bernard Tschumi's new museum. Now the cancer may...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/11/its-the-street.html It's The Location, Stupid!- November 23, 2007 From BuildingGreen.com: The worlds first LEED Platinum building, the Chesapeake Bay Foundations Philip Merrill Environmental Center is loaded with green features: photovoltaic panels, rainwater harvesting, composting toilets... However, moving the organizations staff of around 100 into the new building meant that many employees who had been able to walk to...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/11/its-the-locatio.html Green Council News- November 21, 2007 Cannon House Caucus Room, Carrre & Hastings, 1908 THE GREEN ARCHITECTURE & URBANISM COUNCIL has a new venue for the second day, the Congressional House Caucus Room in the Cannon House Office Building, designed by Carrre & Hastings in 1908. The first and last days we're meeting in the Alexandria...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/11/green-council-n.html Houston on Hudson Hallelujah, Hosannas on High (NOT)- November 21, 2007 FIRST we had Atlantic Yards. Now we have Hudson Yards. Do we really need further proof that the New York City Department of City Planning should live up to its name and plan the city's streets and blocks and then follow that up with a form-based code, instead of leaving...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/11/houston-on-huds.html ”Architectural Cannibalism in Athens“- November 21, 2007 NIKOS SALINGAROS's article on the Acropolis Museumhttp://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/11/architectural-c.html Dude, They Pimped My Bimmer!- November 15, 2007 (Or, Why, Oh Why, Can't BMW Fire Chris Bangle) FORGET ABOUT BMWs being for Yuppies. If you like cars, you like BMWs, because they work so well. Until BMW hired an American to be their chief designer, they looked good too. And their looks were distinctively German, which meant understated...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/11/dude-they-pimpe.html Earth to America, Blue Man Group- November 15, 2007http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/11/earth-to-americ.html Just Say No- November 15, 2007 Architecture 2030http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/11/just-say-no.html |