Veritas et Venustas"Renewing Tradition for the 21st Century." Keywords: architecture, urbanism, classical architecture, traditional urbanism, New Urbanism, Classical Liberalism, ProgressivismA Convenient Solution To An Inconvenient Truth, from MSN.com- August 30, 2007 The Urban Revival Cities may be the key to curbing climate crisis By Kate Sheppard Ever wonder what the greenest place is in all the United States While images of a grass-roofed yurt occupied by back-to-the-landers in rural Montana might spring to mind, it's really quite the opposite. While we...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/08/a-convenient-so.html Architects Really Do Think Like This (if you can call it “thinking”)- August 30, 2007 From Harvard Magazine: Cott, whose firms work includes the critically and popularly praised Mass MoCA, a contemporary art museum housed in the shells of a cluster of old mill buildings in North Adams, Massachusetts, dislikes the idea of a neo-Georgianor indeed, neo-anythingcampus in Allston. Weve got to get past thinking...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/08/architects-real.html More Breaking News (Better This Time)- August 28, 2007 Photo Jim Schmitt A new Katrina Cottage will be featured on ABCs Good Morning America on Wednesday August 29, the 2nd anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Some details: Designed by Marianne Cusato Cottages. Sponsored by Cottage Living Magazine and Mercy Housing (Gayla Schmitt is the local coordinator) Donated to local...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/08/more-breaking-n.html OMG - The Invasion of the City Snatchers- August 28, 2007 UPDATE: This Times-Picayune story comments on many of the architectural and planning issues in NOLA today. More comments from me later. This is your city on drugs. A city is a terrible thing to waste.http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/08/omg---the-invas.html A Lyrical Poet A Blinded Critic- August 26, 2007 UPDATE: It seems that previous articles by Ouroussoff have given me similar thoughts. Pierre Chareau's Maison de Verre (Glass House) is a great house. Chareau designed it in the early 1930s, a time in Paris when Modernism was mainly in the future and its promise was great. By Modernism, I...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/08/a-lyrical-poet-.html Associated Press: Gulf Coast Cities Draw Up New Blueprints- August 26, 2007 By Michael Kunzelman PASS CHRISTIAN, Miss. - Hurricane Katrina erased much of the Mississippi Gulf Coast's past, but the deadly storm also created a blank canvas and a historic opportunity for reinventing cities like this once-quaint beach community. Two years after Katrina claimed more than 200 lives in Mississippi and...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/08/associated-pres.html Live from New York, It's Yankee Stadium!- August 18, 2007 sent from my iPhone MELANIE was online ordering Amtrak tickets for her consulting job in Washington when she said, "I'm going to win these Yankee tickets." And she did. The seats were pretty good that's the view from them above. But they were also under cover, and a rain...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/08/four-stops-less.html Britain's Past Is Our Future — Idiot of the Month, Part III- August 7, 2007 Food production is now so energy-intensive that more carbon is emitted providing a person with enough calories to walk to the shops than a car would emit over the same distance. The climate could benefit if people avoided exercise, ate less and became couch potatoes. Provided, of course, they remembered...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/08/idiot-of-the--2.html Union Square Farmer's Market - Saturday- August 6, 2007http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/08/union-square-fa.html Idiot of the Month: Chris Goodall- August 5, 2007 From yesterday's London Times: Walking to the shops damages planet more than going by car Food production is now so energy-intensive that more carbon is emitted providing a person with enough calories to walk to the shops than a car would emit over the same distance. The climate could benefit...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/08/idiot-of-the-mo.html |