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Saving the history underfoot
Robin Williams, an architectural historian at the Savannah College of Art & Design, delivered a TED talk to explain “How Historic Street Pavement Modernized the City.” Williams has a pleasant manner that conveys his conviction that historic pavement is a … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Preservation, Video
Tagged Historic Pavement, Providence RI, Robin Williams, SCAD, TED talk, Video
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Providence PVDfest today!
We adventured into downtown Providence late this afternoon for PVDfest, the city’s second annual international arts festival (last year’s shindig was the Providence International Arts Festival – deemed too big a mouthful). Day was grayish but without any seeming threat … Continue reading
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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See ‘High Rise’ film trailer
Imagine my thrill at learning today that J.G. Ballard’s suspense novel, High-Rise, depicting what can come of the pressures that build up in the compressed psychosis of a modern residential tower, came out as a film in Britain last year, … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Architecture, Architecture Education, Architecture History, Art and design, Development, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Uncategorized, Urbanism and planning, Video
Tagged Cinema, Froma Harrop, High-Rise, J.G. Ballard, Jeremy Irons, Movie Trailer, Novel, Psychology, silkstocking.nyc, Skyscrapers, Studiocanal, Suspense, UK, Video
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Not the ‘male gaze,’ but …
I know, this may seem to be drilling down more deeply into the sexuality of architecture than most readers of this family blog would like to drill, but I just could not resist. My last post, “Playboy and modernism,” referred … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Architecture, Architecture History, Art and design, Books and Culture, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Video
Tagged Alexandra Staub, Beatriz Colomina, Conflicted Identities, Laugh-In, Le Corbusier, Martha Nussbaum, Modern Architecture, Playboy, Until Money Departs You
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Krier: Politicians, take note
Léon Krier, the architect, planner, theorist and master cartoonist who hails from Luxembourg, has called upon the European Union to build itself a new capital so that a way out of the world’s gathering problems might be forged. He says … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Architecture, Architecture Education, Architecture History, Art and design, Development, Landscape Architecture, Preservation, Providence, Urbanism and planning
Tagged Andres Duany, Building & Design, Eupolis, Jane Jacobs, Jane's Walk, Leon Krier, Prince Charles, Providence RI, Roger Scruton, Tony Brussat, Traditional Building
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Inside ProvModPedBridge
The Rhode Island Department of Transportation has announced a slight advance in the schedule for getting design, bidding and construction of the modernist pedestrian bridge that will (?) link two parks and the east and west parcels of development land … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Architecture, Art and design, Development, Landscape Architecture, Providence, Providence Journal, Rhode Island, Urbanism and planning
Tagged Bill Warner, Bridge Repair, Bridges, College Street Bridge, Construction Documents, I-195 Redevelopment Commission, Infrastructure, Providence Pedestrian Bridge, Rep. David Cicilline, RIDOT
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Better ideas not worse, pls!
Yesterday I sent in my monthly blog post for Traditional Building magazine, and today I’m thinking, well, I left out some really important stuff. My TB post was a reply to TB’s Forum in which the architectural historian Paul A. … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Architecture, Architecture Education, Architecture History, Art and design, Landscape Architecture, Preservation, Urbanism and planning
Tagged Ann Sussman, design, Forum, Freud, Michael Mehaffy, Michel Foucault, Modern Architecture, modernism, Nikos Salingaros, Ornament, Paul Ranogajec, Philosophy, Psychology, Traditional Building
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