Veritas et Venustas"Renewing Tradition for the 21st Century." Keywords: architecture, urbanism, classical architecture, traditional urbanism, New Urbanism, Classical Liberalism, ProgressivismMoblogging - Live from Camden, ME- September 28, 2007 sent from my iPhonehttp://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/09/moblogging---li.html A Sign of the Times- September 22, 2007 AND SO IT GOES, while the architecture critic of the New York Times continues working as a press agent for Starchitects and their egocentric ideology, the news departments at the Times present different views. Today the paper's Religion Journal reports dissatisfaction with Modernist churches and a trend towards new traditional...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/09/a-sign-of-the-t.html Open the pod bay door, Rem.- September 21, 2007 Click on the photo for larger image 2007 OMA More news on the stela from 2007 A Space Odyssey here.http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/09/open-the-pod-ba.html Cherry Valley, New York- September 16, 2007 THIS OLD HOUSE is in Cherry Valley, New York, seven miles along a beautiful old road from Cooperstown, New York (where I went because Phil Bess was leading a charrette for the Notre Dame urban design graduate students). The house is at the southern end of the main street, a...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/09/cherry-valley-n.html Coming soon to a bookstore near you ...- September 15, 2007 From bookdwarf: I finished a book late last night which even though is not coming out until next March I wanted to go ahead and mention. Did you know that James Howard Kunstler wrote fiction I didn't. I know him from The Long Emergency and The Geography of Nowhere. ......http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/09/coming-soon-to-.html Funny, you don't look blueish- September 8, 2007 The New York Times architecture critic has never met a Starchitect he didn't like. The latest example of this truism His review of Blue, another pseudo-luxury condo on the Lower East Side, where his knee-jerk sympathy for Starchitects leads him to say things like, "Mr. Tschumis interests lie in an...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/09/funny-you-dont-.html Joel Kotkin- September 8, 2007 From the very good California Planning & Development Report: Joel Kotkin is one of the most widely read and widely quoted commentators on cities and urban planning in the United States today. But I have to admit that when I pick up the paper or click to a new web...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/09/joel-kotkin.html Yonkers as Bonkers as Architects- September 5, 2007 DESCRIBING Will Alsop's proposed Yonkers Power Station conversion, the World Architecture News and Canadian Architect both effusively call the project "much anticipated" in the the first sentence of their press releases stories. Curbed readers had very different reactions (below). Their comments reminded me of that old Carly Simon lyric: "An-tic-a-pa-a-tion...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/09/yonkers-bonkers.html Minimalism & Train Wreck Architecture- September 3, 2007 A FEW DAYS AGO, I visited the Hammond-Harwood House (Annapolis, Maryland, 1774), and was struck by its beautiful simplicity. Each room was simply designed, and luxuriously but sparsely furnished. In the 18th century, even the richest Americans had far fewer objects then than we do now, and all were chosen...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/09/minimalism-trai.html Form Follows Function- September 3, 2007 FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION is a myth. Study great cities and you will see that one of the things that makes them great is that they endure over time. Generations die, culture changes, uses come and go, and great streets and neighborhoods endure. Great cities require buildings and building types that...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2007/09/form-follows-fu.html |