Monthly Archives: March 2022

Rob Krier wins his Driehaus

Posted on March 29, 2022 by David Brussat

The architect and urban theorist Rob Krier is this year’s Driehaus Prize laureate. The first Driehaus Prize winner, two decades ago, was his brother, architect and urban theorist Leon Krier, who was also born in Luxembourg and is about eight … Continue reading →

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Bob Stern and Bill Brussat

Posted on March 25, 2022 by David Brussat

A book unexpected and unannounced arrived on my doorstep today: Robert A.M. Stern’s Between Memory and Invention, which I immediately mistook for an update of an earlier volume of his, Tradition and Invention in Architecture (2011). That has inhabited my … Continue reading →

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Mittell: Strategy for Ukraine

Posted on March 22, 2022 by David Brussat

This is another guest post from David Mittell, my former colleague from the Providence Journal. He has agreed with my desire to point out that his two guest posts (and maybe more) are published as a favor to a dear … Continue reading →

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Christopher Alexander, R.I.P.

Posted on March 20, 2022 by David Brussat

The great architectural and computer design theorist Christopher Alexander, born in Vienna and of British and American citizenship, died at his home in Binsted, Sussex, U.K. this past week after a long illness. He was 85. His more than 200 … Continue reading →

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Mittell: Diplos, return to Kyiv

Posted on March 16, 2022 by David Brussat

This is a guest post by David A. Mittell Jr., a veteran of many visits to Lviv, whose beauty he described vividly in a guest post in 2016, which I recently republished. In today’s post he admonishes the U.S. ambassador … Continue reading →

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More shots of lovely Ukraine

Posted on March 14, 2022 by David Brussat

Today I had to kill a post because because it contained a major mathematical error that could not be corrected. Fortunately – or unfortunately – I am able to substitute for it a post featuring more photographs of poor Ukraine, … Continue reading →

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College Hill settings preserved

Posted on March 10, 2022 by David Brussat

Three battles pitting neighbors and applicants for new construction on Williams and John streets appear, after recent meetings of the Providence Historic District Commission, to have been preservationist victories. What? How can three new houses (one actually a new addition … Continue reading →

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A somber look at brave Kyiv

Posted on March 5, 2022 by David Brussat

I feared last night that in posting photographs only of Lviv, and for describing Ukraine’s capital of Kyiv as a “mixture of old and new” (in my book, a quasi-dismissal), I might be properly rebuked, and so I have been. … Continue reading →

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Holding our breath for Lviv

Posted on March 4, 2022 by David Brussat

My friend and former colleague on the Providence Journal editorial board, David Mittell, once wrote me a guest post called “Why I love Lviv,” a city he has visited dozens of times and hopes to visit again, even though he … Continue reading →

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