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Monthly Archives: April 2016
My Jane Jacobs river tour
Wednesday would be the 100th birthday of Jane Jacobs if she had not died in 2006. Saturday at 1 p.m. is my third tour of Providence’s new riverfront for Jane’s Walk, the international conspiracy to spread her urbanist wisdom around … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Architecture, Architecture Education, Architecture History, Books and Culture, Development, Landscape Architecture, Preservation, Providence, Providence Journal, Rhode Island, Urbanism and planning
Tagged Bill Warner, BLDGBLOG, Geoff Manaugh, Infrastructure Observatory, Jane Jacobs, Jane's Walk, Providence RI, Robert Moses, Tim Hwang
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Trump’s towering penis envy
Trump – the Donald, that is, our president wannabe – owns several tall buildings. I will not attempt here to say how tall or how many. His website shows quite a number, but other sources make it more clear that … Continue reading
Hart’s humanist architecture
The Lincoln Memorial – The dignity humanity, and success of a man framed in classical virtue, reminding us of how much we’ve forgotten about building monuments. [Sketches by Albrecht Pichler] Robert Lamb Hart has sent me A New Look at … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Architecture, Architecture Education, Architecture History, Art and design, Book/Film Reviews, Books and Culture, Landscape Architecture, Preservation, Urbanism and planning
Tagged A New Look at Humanism, Albrecht Pichler, Humanism, Meadowlark Publishing, Modern Architecture, Neurobiology, Physiology, Psychology, Robert Lamb Hart, Science, Scientific Research, traditional architecture
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Epiphany in Stuttgart
My brother, his wife Sabrina and her two sons stayed a stretch in Germany for treatment of the two sons’ Lyme disease – successful treatment, by the way. They were in Stuttgart when Tony, a noted philosopher of the mind/body/nature continuum, … Continue reading
Scruton, Haussmann, Syria
The British philosopher and architectural theorist Roger Scruton, whose 1995 book The Classical Vernacular is one of my bibles, has recently written “Rebuilding a new Syria without the divisions” for The Times of London. Syria’s history as a French protectorate … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Architecture, Architecture Education, Architecture History, Art and design, Book/Film Reviews, Books and Culture, Development, Other countries, Preservation, Urbanism and planning
Tagged Damascus, Homs, London, Marwa al-Sabouni, Mecca, Modern Architecture, Modern Planning, Roger Scruton, Syria, The Times of London
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ICAA New England’s gala
This weekend, the New England chapter of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art celebrated its ambitious new Bulfinch Awards program. For the first time we invited competition entries from across the nation for work performed in New England. This, … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Architecture, Architecture Education, Architecture History, Art and design, Development, Landscape Architecture, Preservation, Urbanism and planning
Tagged Algonquin Club, Boston, Bulfinch Awards, David Andreozzi, Eliot Hotel, Harvard Club, ICAA, New England, New England Chapter, Sheldon Kostelecky
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A modern sculptor’s lament
The grassy triangular plot of land at the corner of Kennedy Plaza and Burnside Park in downtown Providence – officially Parcel 12 of Capital Center – is unofficially called Bad Sculpture Park. A hotel is going to be built there, … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Architecture, Architecture Education, Architecture History, Art and design, Humor, Providence, Providence Journal, Rhode Island, Urbanism and planning, Video
Tagged Arts Councils, Capital Center, Central Park, Cristo, Donald Gerola, Providence RI, Public Art, Public Space, Sculpture, Stephen Colbert, The Daily Show, The Gates, Video
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Fascism, modernism paired
Mother’s milk flowing from her gentle soul, a good friend expressed at lunch yesterday her dismay at the fascist tendencies of modernist architect Philip Johnson. She is no fan of his buildings (there are two in Providence), but she was … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Architecture, Architecture Education, Architecture History, Art and design, Books and Culture, Urbanism and planning
Tagged Germany, Hitler, Ideology, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Roh, Modern Architecture, Naziism, Nazis, Philip Johnson, Politics, Psychology, Third Reich
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The reactionary avant-garde
The epitome of a contradiction in terms, the idea of a reactionary avant-garde is a most appropriate description of what the theorist Nikos Salingaros calls the “cult” of modern architecture. Charles Siegel uses the term in the title of his … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Architecture, Architecture Education, Architecture History, Art and design, Book/Film Reviews, Development, Preservation, Urbanism and planning
Tagged Charles Siegel, Congress for the New Urbanism, Nikos Salingaros, Quinlan Terry, Richmond Riverside, Rob Steuteville, The Humanists versus the Reactionary Avant-Garde, The Public Square
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Your brain on architecture
Here’s another scientific study about architecture. Look through the methodology and your eyeballs may roll furiously at its conclusion that “contemplative” buildings cause contemplative activity in the brain. Showing pictures of such buildings (old and new) to a dozen architects … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Architecture, Architecture Education, Architecture History, Art and design, Urbanism and planning
Tagged Brain, CityLab, Dr. Julio Bermudez, Emily von Hoffman, Georgetown University, Lauinger Library, MRI, Neurophysiology, Neuropsychology, The Atlantic, The Salk Institute
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