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My Milton Grenfell payback
Strolling through the blogs of Traditional Building magazine’s website, I came across an article by Gordon Bock from two years ago about Milton Grenfell, a Washington, D.C., architect who designs classical buildings. Now, Milton Grenfell holds a lofty place in … Continue reading
The next Blackstone battle?
The headline refers to the failed effort, in 2014, to divide up the Granoff estate. The property behind it, 25 Balton Rd., has the same dark cloud gathering over it. Many people are familiar with the Bodell mansion from having … Continue reading
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Tagged 25 Balton Rd., Blackstone Boulevard, Bodell Estate, City Plan Commission, East Side, Granoff Estate, Providence, Zoning
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Hitler’s revenge on America
The journal Places has published, as the inaugural installment in its Future Archive series of forgotten writing of the past century, a 1968 essay for Art in America by Sibyl Moholy-Nagy called “Hitler’s Revenge.” The essay is introduced by Despina … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Architecture, Architecture Education, Architecture History, Art and design, Development, Preservation, Urbanism and planning
Tagged Ada Louise Huxtable, Bauhaus, Despina Stratigakos, Germany, Hitler, Jane Jacobs, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Marcel Breuer, Mies van der Rohe, Places Journal, Sibyl Moholy-Navy, University of Buffalo, Walter Gropius
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Macintosh library reveals all
Today is Charles Rennie Macintosh’s birthday, the 148th anniversary of his birth in 1868. Hats off to Joel Pidel and Paul Ranogajec for memorializing the event with the picture above. Paul also linked to an article in Archinect, “The architects … Continue reading
Our buildings, our selves
Ann Sussman, author with Justin Hollander of Cognitive Architecture, has an article in Planning magazine, “Planning for the Subconscious,” that suggests that the millennia-long evolution of how we shape buildings and places placates the inner urges of our minds and … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Architecture, Architecture Education, Architecture History, Art and design, Books and Culture, Development, Urbanism and planning
Tagged Ann Sussman, Biology, Biometrics, Boston, Brain, Christopher Alexander, classical architecture, Hancock Tower, Modern Architecture, Neuroscience, Nikos Salingaros, Perception, Science, Trinity Church
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The “Brutalist” website fad
The Washington Post reports that “The hottest trend in Web design is making intentionally ugly, difficult websites.” The article by Katherine Acrement states: Look at Hacker News. Pinboard. The Drudge Report. Adult Swim. Bloomberg Businessweek features. All of these sites … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Architecture, Architecture Education, Architecture History, Art and design, Urbanism and planning
Tagged Andres Duany, Brutalism, Computers, Congress of the New Urbanism, Graduate School of Design, Harvard, Jim Colleran, Katherine Acrement, Modern Architecture, Washington Post, Web Brutalism, Web Design
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The Palladio Awards of 2016
The Palladio Awards may not get the attention of the Driehaus Prize, which does not get the attention of the Pritzker Prize. But the Palladios are the first and only national architecture award that recognizes specific traditional projects and their … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Architecture, Architecture Education, Architecture History, Art and design, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Urbanism and planning
Tagged Active Interest Media, AIM Media, Architecture Competitions, Arthur Ross Award, Bulfinch Awards, classical architecture, Driehaus Prize, Modern Architecture, Palladio Awards, Pritzker Prize, Stanford White Awards
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The architecture of burglary
I’ve been wanting to read A Burglar’s Guide to the City, by Geoff Manaugh, whose fascinating blog BLDGBLOG has recently infatuated me. Here is something he recently said to Ellen Gamerman of the Wall Street Journal for “The Dying Art … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Architecture, Architecture Education, Architecture History, Art and design, Development
Tagged A Burglar's Guide to the City, Alfred Hitchcock, Bonnie & Clyde, Burglary, Cary Grant, Crime, Dwell Magazine, Ellen Gamerman, Geoff Manaugh, To Catch a Thief, Unhappy Hipsters, Wall Street Journal
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Shubow’s fine Bulfinch talk
Justin Shubow’s recent talk in Boston, the first annual Bulfinch Awards Lecture, was delivered in the afternoon before that evening’s gala, thrown by the New England chapter of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art to celebrate the eight Bulfinch … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Architecture, Architecture Education, Architecture History, Art and design, Books and Culture, Preservation, Video
Tagged Boston MA, Bulfinch Awards, Dwight Eisenhower, First Bulfinch Lecture, Frank Gehry, George Washington, ICAA New England Chapter, Justin Shubow, Mies van der Rohe, National Civic Art Society, Thomas Jefferson
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How to keep Portland weird
Portland, Ore., is a city so satisfied with itself that it can afford to enjoy a TV show, Portlandia, that makes fun of its foibles. And of course, foibles are easily fobbed off. They are not actual problems. Most cities … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Architecture, Architecture Education, Architecture History, Art and design, Development, Humor, Preservation, Providence, Urbanism and planning
Tagged Economics, Ed Glaeser, Housing, Jane Jacobs, Keep Portland Weird, Michael Mehaffy, Modern Architecture, Planetizen, Portland OR, Portlandia, Providence RI, Reaganomics, Real Estate, Seattle, Skyscrapers, Supply Side, Sustasis Foundation, Urban Growth Boundary
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