Veritas et Venustas"Renewing Tradition for the 21st Century." Keywords: architecture, urbanism, classical architecture, traditional urbanism, New Urbanism, Classical Liberalism, ProgressivismMan Bites Dog: Major Italian Newspapers Complain About Starchitecture!- November 15, 2007 Have we reached a tipping point See Nikos Salingaros's comments, below. via AVOEhttp://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/11/man-bites-dog-m.html Dog Bites Man: Planner Complains About New Urbanism- November 15, 2007 The Cult of New Urbanism By David C. Phillips American Planning Association publication, The New Planner (Requires membership & registration) With the popularity of this approach to community design, the question for planners becomes: "Is new urbanism a panacea for all that ails a community" The answer is emphatically "no."...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/11/dog-bites-man-p.html You Never Know What You'll Find On The Web, Part II- November 14, 2007 Jeff Shelton is a Santa Barbara architect who seems to be a child of the Sixties. On the basis of these photographs, I love his work. Jeff Shelton Architect Cota Street Studios Jeff Shelton bookshttp://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/11/you-never-kno-1.html :-)- November 13, 2007 MSN: Cities Can Make Us Happy Some Quotes: Good Urban Design What does urban design have to do with happiness More than you might think. The data strongly suggests that real community and real friendships are important keys to happiness, says Stephen Post co-author of Why Good Things Happen To...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/11/-.html Meet George Jetson- November 8, 2007 Ethan Pines for the New York Times QUESTION: Why is it alright for architects to mimic American architecture of the 1950s, and German architecture and French architecture of the 1920s and 30s, but nothing that came before that ANSWER: Because architecture schools brainwash their students into believing outdated Modernist Zeitgeist...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/11/meet-george-jet.html His boy, Elroy- November 8, 2007 ET go home. This is not making a better city.http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/11/his-boy-elroy.html I always said he was smart.- November 8, 2007 SERIOUSLY, I did. Duany did too. And now Koolhaas is saying many things that New Urbanists and New Classicists have been saying for decades. From Architecture Week: Rem Koolhaas presented several examples of the most worthy efforts of "star" architects, including both built and proposed projects from the last ten...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/11/i-always-said-h.html I thought they had rocket scientists at MIT ...- November 7, 2007 From AOL News: YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE A ROCKET SCIENTIST to know that buildings with 254 roof lines and experimental shapes and construction details requiring aerospace CAD software might have problems with leaks. Frank Lloyd Wright's buildings leaked. Daniel Libeskind's buildings leak. When you "push the envelope" and (more...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/11/i-thought-they-.html |