Veritas et Venustas"Renewing Tradition for the 21st Century." Keywords: architecture, urbanism, classical architecture, traditional urbanism, New Urbanism, Classical Liberalism, ProgressivismArchitecture Critic of the Year: James Howard Kunstler- January 25, 2008 THE 2008 results are already coming in. Those who don't know Jim Kunstler's work should look at his Eyesores of the Month. Here's the January 2008 Eyesore you might think it's a Photoshop joke, but it's just another monument to Starchitecture and the human ego (text by Jim and...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2008/01/architecture-cr.html Dude, They Pimped My Bimmer II- January 21, 2008 1966 Mercedes-Benz 220 SE Cabriolet GOOGLE "Fire Chris Bangle" and you'll find a petition you can sign to do just that. That says pretty clearly what lot of BMW owners think of his work. Andres Duany pointed out to me yesterday that Bangle is the master of the concave curve....http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2008/01/dude-they-pimpe.html La Bellissima- January 21, 2008 Men do not love Rome because she is beautiful, Rome is beautiful because men have loved her. Leopold Kohr Other Quotes from Kohr: "Small is beautiful." "Whenever something is wrong, it is too big."http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2008/01/la-bellissima.html The Truth Is Out There & “All the single-malt scotch in Scotland couldn't fix that problem.”- January 11, 2008 Cut-out cities BD Magazine - Offices - November 2007 By Edwin Heathcote Why are modern office buildings cutouts with no past or future I was talking to a planner from the City of London the other day, and he told me that on his watch of a little under a...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2008/01/the-truth-is-ou.html |