Category Archives: Photography

On the Brown campus

Posted on September 17, 2014 by David Brussat

This morning, an especially nice one, I happened after a meeting at the Wheeler School to wander through the campus of Brown University. I took some pictures. On top, however, is the main building on Hope Street at Wheeler. And … Continue reading →

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Salem’s Chestnut Street

Posted on September 14, 2014 by David Brussat

Yesterday I took a house tour on Chestnut Street in Salem, Mass, sponsored by the New England chapter of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art. Founded in 1626, Salem was the home of Nathaniel Hawthorne. The tour took us … Continue reading →

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Shooting WaterFire!

Posted on August 8, 2014 by David Brussat

Here are some shots of WaterFire, created and operated by artist Barnaby Evans of Providence. For readers unfamiliar with the phenomenon, the installation has played out on the city’s three intimate downtown rivers for, I think, 15 years now, every … Continue reading →

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Washington perceived

Posted on July 4, 2014 by David Brussat

A few random shots of our nation’s capital on its birthday (in 2011, actually):  

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Life on Thayer Street

Posted on May 18, 2014 by David Brussat

My family dined al fresco on Thayer Street this evening. Thayer is the main street of Brown University on College Hill, in Providence. We arrived, sat down, got out our mobile media, and noticed a party under way on a … Continue reading →

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Italy’s got beauty, eh?

Posted on May 16, 2014 by David Brussat

My friend Maria Ruggieri, the famous jewelry designer of Providence (her firm, Ti Adoro, at tiadorojewelry.com), recently visited the Italian family seat of her boyfriend, Gigi, of Toronto, who is from the lovely region of Lake Orta near Milan. She took … Continue reading →

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Foster atrocity in N.Y.

Posted on May 15, 2014 by David Brussat

My recent post about architectural details in Manhattan opened with a shot of the statuary on the base of a building erected 80 years before the tower itself was added eight years ago. (You can see it way down the street at the lower right of … Continue reading →

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Beauty isn’t so difficult

Posted on May 13, 2014 by David Brussat

How do they do it? Beauty. Other things being equal, people spend much of their discretionary time in places where it is enough merely to be there to feel pleasure beyond what can normally be felt at home. Building beauty … Continue reading →

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Details, details, NYC edition

Posted on May 11, 2014 by David Brussat

Manhattan at its best may be seen at that level of scale – the very small, the small and the submedium – that modern architecture eliminates almost entirely from its works. That’s why modernism is impressive only from a distance, … Continue reading →

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Drinking in Manhattan

Posted on May 11, 2014 by David Brussat

Kristen Richards, of ArchNewsNow.com, got Victoria, Billy and I onto a tour boat sponsored by the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects. The vessel, of the Classic Harbor Line, is called the Manhattan, appropriately enough, and the … Continue reading →

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