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Author Archives: David Brussat
Milwaukee trigger warning
The building pictured in the renderings above was proposed for downtown Milwaukee last year. The Hammes Co. real estate firm expects to move from its current site in the suburbs. The design ran into a buzzsaw of opposition. Members of … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture
Tagged Dallas, Hammes Co., Jeramey Jannene, Milwaukee, Old Parkland, Trammel Crow, Urban Milwaukee
7 Comments
A Jane Jacobs cornucopia
Here is an excellent review of recent books published by and about Jane Jacobs in the past year, which was the centennial of her birth. “What Jane Jacobs Saw,” by Michael Lewis in the upcoming March issue of First Things, … Continue reading
Tour Providence by the book
Tomorrow a bunch of us know-it-alls have been invited to the Providence Preservation Society for a private session to suggest changes for a second edition of PPS’s 2003 Guide to Providence Architecture, written by Mack Woodward and photographed by Warren … Continue reading
A Kunstlerfest in Chicago
James Howard Kunstler’s magisterial book The Geography of Nowhere lays waste to the ideas that laid waste to America, but his thoughts on suburbia – crudscape and all that – come after the book’s “opening monologue” about the history of … Continue reading
Is this possible anymore?
Above is a photo of a town, Sémur-en-Auxois, in the Côte-d’Or, a department of northeastern France. Below is Sarlat-la-Canéda, in the Dordogne, another deparment, in the northeast. They are both beautiful, and it makes sense to wonder whether there is … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture
Tagged craft, France, Joel Pidel, Sara Hines, The Dordogne, Tom Low, Villages
29 Comments
Fond adieu to Horne’s Paris
Here are several more passages lifted from the closing chapters of Alistair Horne’s engaging Seven Ages of Paris: Less felicitous were architectural scandals like the Tour Montparnasse (started in 1959, but not finished till 1973), greatest urban project since Haussmann, … Continue reading
The eye, the mind, the heart
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so sayeth just about everyone, but how does the mind influence what the eye of the beholder sees? If the eye informs the brain and the brain informs the taste, then there … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art and design
Tagged Ann Sussman, Beauty, Cognitive Architecture, ICAA, ICAA New England Chapter, Taste
2 Comments
Preservation in Charleston
Should historic preservation be a quest for beauty or a quest for knowledge? That was the question at issue on Saturday in Charleston., S.C. Both are valid goals but I argued that beauty should be top priority. The panel, “Unfolding … Continue reading
My TB post on style wars
Here is the January post for my blog at Traditional Building: “Assertively Classical: Thomas Gordon Smith at Notre Dame” was written before the already intense political climate intensified by two- or three-fold after the inauguration of that successful entertainer. The … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture
Tagged Donald Trump, Notre Dame, Penn Station, Thomas Gordon Smith, Traditional Building
8 Comments
And the race is on!
Providence. Friday, February 10. 7:45 a.m. This is a completely absurdist concept for a blog post, but my cab to Green Airport, outside of Providence, will (I hope) pick me up in 45 minutes. So here, to be brief, are … Continue reading

