Veritas et Venustas"Renewing Tradition for the 21st Century." Keywords: architecture, urbanism, classical architecture, traditional urbanism, New Urbanism, Classical Liberalism, Progressivism"Die Yuppie Scum"- June 17, 2008 TRY LIVING IN INDIANA and you'll probably be less hard on Yuppies. But I understand Friday's Die Yuppie Scum rally. Cities need diversity, and we've passed Manhattan's tipping point for yuppies and the rich. If something doesn't drive New York real estate prices down, there will come a time in...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2008/06/die-yuppie-scum.html PS: Blogs, Reporters, Critics & Too little liebe in Libeskind- June 11, 2008 WE LIVE in a time of changing paradigms, in art, architecture and life itself. Modernism, twentieth-century liberalism (a particular brand of liberalism, not to be confused with Classical Liberalism or Progressivism), are all still with us, but now they are more remnants of the past than expressions of the present....http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2008/06/ps-blogs-report.html The Way We Live Now- June 11, 2008 Flying Stinks -- Especially for the Airlines Travelers' Mounting Woes Reflect Carriers' Attempts To Deal With High Fuel Costs Wall Street Journal, June 10, 2008; Page D1 You can fly between New York and Los Angeles for as little as $370 round-trip, not including taxes and government fees, on JetBlue,...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2008/06/the-way-we-live.html Too little liebe in Libeskind- June 10, 2008 Photo: Jim WilsonThe New York Times Professional architecture critics fall all over themselves praising Starchitect Libeskind. So it was interesting to see the review of Libeskind's newest building, the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, by a New York Times' "culture critic at large" who sometimes writes about religion,...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2008/06/too-little-lieb.html |