Monthly Archives: February 2022

Andres Duany at TAG 4.2

Posted on February 28, 2022 by David Brussat

The architect and planner Andrés Duany, who was a founder of the Congress of the New Urbanism back in the 1990s, gave the final lecture at the fourth session of TAG 4.2, this year’s gathering via Zoom of classicists, now … Continue reading →

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TAG 4.2 versus TAG 4.2?

Posted on February 26, 2022 by David Brussat

TAG 4.2 means traditional architecture gathering, this year held via Zoom from the offices, in Washington, D.C., of the Classical Planning Institute founded by Nir Buras, an Israeli American architect, author of The Art of Classic Planning, and impresario of … Continue reading →

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Fictional Oxford pool room

Posted on February 22, 2022 by David Brussat

I once lived for 11 years, 1999-2010, in a downtown Providence billiard room. It was a loft on the fifth floor of the Smith Building (built in 1912) on Eddy Street, renovated in 1999 with views looking to the south … Continue reading →

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Andres Duany on Fox News

Posted on February 19, 2022 by David Brussat

Yesterday, Fox News posted a brief segment featuring Andrés Duany on Tucker Carlson Tonight. In addition, Carlson speaks with Duany for an hour on Tucker Carlson Today. Duany was on fire in his comments about cities and towns in America … Continue reading →

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Antwerp’s Centraal Station

Posted on February 15, 2022 by David Brussat

A friend sent an email literally begging me to read the novel Austerlitz, by W.G. Sebald, of whom I’d never heard, and it came in the mail just in the nick of time, preventing me from writing about the Super … Continue reading →

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More dishing on Brad Pitt

Posted on February 11, 2022 by David Brussat

Apparently, some media outlets have discovered the joy of dishing on celebrities who think they know best. Isn’t that all of them? At any rate, the Daily Kos and the (U.K.) Guardian both have new hit pieces out on Hollywood … Continue reading →

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Backsliding on 67 Williams

Posted on February 3, 2022 by David Brussat

The proposal for a new house on Williams Street where no house has ever been built has, in my mind, slid in status from buildable perhaps to buildable not. I refer to my own minimal support for the design as … Continue reading →

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