Veritas et Venustas"Renewing Tradition for the 21st Century." Keywords: architecture, urbanism, classical architecture, traditional urbanism, New Urbanism, Classical Liberalism, ProgressivismUPDATE: What you want, What you get.- June 27, 2007 A SURE BET: If you say something like "Modernism produced some great buildings, but it produced very few great places" in a public talk, chances are good that an architect will stand up at the end and challenge that. Here's how to make some money, or at least end the...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/06/what_you_want_w.html Egotecture to be branded as Ecotecture- June 27, 2007 Important Ego-Tecture Conference Announced AYN RAND would be proud. Screw the environment and the city what's important is to make the world safe for developers' towers and architects' egos. Yeah, that's the ticket! We'll get some mirror glass. And some Starchitects! Yeah, then we'll have a Platinum LEED tower...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/06/ego-eco-tecture.html Friday Funny- June 22, 2007 When you read "Rarely in today's New York, does a building project inspire so much confidence in the future," are these what you expect to see via Curbed frightening funny photo and video links after the jumphttp://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/06/friday-funny.html Back in the Big Apple- June 20, 2007 AFTER two more semesters teaching architecture and urbanism at the University of Miami and Notre Dame, I'm back in New York, enjoying things you can't do in South Bend, or even Coral Gables. Last week we went on an impromptu walking tour, starting at Westville, a funny place on 10th...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/06/back_in_the_big.html Take me out to the ballgame- June 16, 2007 A rendering of Urban Design Associates' plan for the Cincinnatti riverfront. IN THE LAST SIX OR SEVEN WEEKS, I've been to five baseball stadiums: Wrigley Field, Citizen's Bank Ballpark, The Great American Ballpark, Jacobs Field and Coveleski Stadium. The last is where the South Bend Silver Hawks play: it was...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/06/take_me_out_to_.html Congestion Pricing Update- June 13, 2007 From this week's New York Observer: Blue-chip companies, public-interest groups and private foundations have spent more than $2 million since late April to support Mayor Bloombergs environmental sustainability plan, including its congestion-pricing push, according to participants, outspending opponents by more than 10 to 1. The money, while far from guaranteeing...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/06/congestion_pric.html Rural to Urban Transect- June 12, 2007 Here's a transect for regional planning and codes for existing cities: T6 Large Urban Core Center General Other T5 Medium Center General Other T4 Small Center General Other T3 Sub-urban Shopping Office Residential T2 Rural Hamlet Large lot Agricultural Reserve T1 Preserve Park Other...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/06/rural_to_urban_.html Interactive model of ancient Rome to go online today- June 11, 2007 UPDATE: Unfortunately, there is no current plan to put the interactive model online. Newsweek has a story here. AT a 2 pm press conference in Italy today, the Mayor of Rome was supposed to introduce an online, interactive model of ancient Rome (see press release below). It doesn't seem to...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/06/interactive_mod.html Sunday In The Park With WiFi- June 11, 2007 NOW that I'm back in New York, I'm happy to have free WiFi in Central Park. We're reaching the point where it's hard to remember life without Google, which helps me in so many ways every day (yesterday I found the parking information for the North White Plains train station...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/06/sunday_in_the_p.html World Champion - Freehand Circle Drawing<br >(worth waiting for)- June 7, 2007http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/06/world_champion_.html |