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Cosmo + Prozac Architects

Posted on March 26, 2015 by David Brussat

This morning, before any of us had arisen, my wife murmured that my brother’s dog Cosmo wasn’t doing well, showing the signs of anxiety at Extended Stay America, where they’re awaiting the renovation of their house in Gaithersburg, Md. While … Continue reading →

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Plecnik capitals you can see

Posted on March 25, 2015 by David Brussat

Here is that page of column capitals disambiguated from the shot taken and sent to TradArch by Angelo Gueli yesterday and posted in a cropped and undisambiguated (I think that’s a word) by me. The photos were too small for … Continue reading →

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Landmark the neighbors

Posted on March 19, 2015 by David Brussat

Many Providence residents live on beautiful streets lined with houses built before ugly architecture became almost mandatory. Few neighborhoods are dominated by midcentury modern houses, although some jackanapes might even argue that they qualify as historic. Historic, perhaps, if the … Continue reading →

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Mark Anthony Signorelli: The poetry of architecture

Posted on March 16, 2015 by David Brussat

Nikos Salingaros, the theorist of architecture’s debt to biology, has sent me an essay by his sometime collaborator Mark Anthony Signorelli. Nikos describes “The Soul in the Temple” as “very insightful and very poetic (well, Mark is a poet!).” I … Continue reading →

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New apartments downtown!

Posted on March 12, 2015 by David Brussat

Originally posted on Architecture Here and There:
Upper portion of door surround at 32 Custom House St. Monday evening’s meeting of the Downtown Design Review Committee relieved concerns that one must feel upon news that a graceful old building is…

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“Clock ticking” for brutality?

Posted on March 6, 2015 by David Brussat

Originally posted on Architecture Here and There:
Passage leading into Orange County (N.Y.) Government Center, by Paul Rudolph. (NTY) So says the New York Times’s Michael Kimmelman in “Clock Ticks for Rudolph’s Orange County Government Center.” By the time you…

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Sketching my mom of moms

Posted on February 28, 2015 by David Brussat

Here’s the column I wrote in 2004 about the annual meeting in Providence of the American Society of Architectural Illustrators. I was going to write it mainly about the work of a sort of sketchy illustrator from San Francisco in … Continue reading →

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Edges, shapes and patterns!

Posted on February 25, 2015 by David Brussat

Edges, patterns and shapes affect our perception of the built environment through the millennia worth of knowledge accumulated by our brain about our world. Only 70,000 years from the savannah and, as Ann Sussman put it last night, “your subconscious … Continue reading →

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Laurel, Hardy and the girl

Posted on February 17, 2015 by David Brussat

Originally posted on Architecture Here and There:
Note architecture in clip from Laurel and Hardy film. (emmanuelevening.org) My friend Lee Juskalian sent me a video that reminds me of a video from Gizmodo.com that I posted as “Painted girl evolves,”…

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Lurking behind this facade

Posted on February 17, 2015 by David Brussat

Originally posted on Architecture Here and There:
Old facade of a new business in Bucharest. (boredpanda.com) Behind this stern but elegant classical façade – in Bucharest! – lurks one of the most astonishing and effective mixtures of the old and…

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