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Plečnik capitals you can see
Jože Plečnik may perhaps be deemed the Antoni Gaudi of Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. Or vice versa. Both shifted the character of their principal cities (Barcelona in Gaudi’s case) toward a more animated, innovative and yet entirely classical character. … Continue reading
Your face as face mask art
Years ago, I urged Providence artists to create murals designed to look like the buildings on which they were painted. A façade with no windows could be painted to look like the rest of the building. Humans could be leaning … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art and design
Tagged Ann Sussman, Architectural Digest, Covid, Daniel Baskin, Eye Tracking, Face Masks, New York Yacht Club, Providence RI
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Eyed by Ranalli’s theater
Do the citizens of Doylestown, Penn., feel as if the new addition to their theater is giving them the eye, following them closely as they walk by? Sort of like the Mona Lisa or some dark portrait of an old … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture
Tagged Ann Sussman, County Theater, Doylestown PA, Driehaus Prize, George Ranalli, Michael Sorkin, Pritzker Prize
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Take Sussman’s fish test here
Ann Sussman, the Concord, Mass., architect and researcher, asked me to take a test a few days ago. I was to look at a set of illustrations of fishes and note what my eyes do. I took her test, and … Continue reading
Parsing classical creativity
The proposed executive order encouraging classical architecture for federal buildings in Washington and elsewhere, if adopted by President Trump, would replace Kennedy-era guidelines that have encouraged modern architecture for federal buildings since 1962. Enough time has passed to declare modern … Continue reading
The trenches of modernism
Walter Gropius, the founder of the Bauhaus school, died fifty years ago today. A new biography is out, Gropius: The Man Who Built the Bauhaus, by Fiona MacCarthy. Two major houses published it simultaneously, Faber & Faber in the U.K. … Continue reading
Seek the bottom of beauty
The headline of Joanne Ostrow’s article in the Denver Sun got my attention: “Is Denver’s contemporary architecture killing us?” Leaving aside that Denverites are not the only victims of modern architecture, the answer offered to Ostrow by the subject of … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture
Tagged Ann Sussman, Beauty, Denver CO, Denver Sun, Don Ruggles, Joanne Ostrow, Nikos Salingaros, Ruggles Mabe Studios
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Talk the talk on buildings
An essay by Marianela D’Aprile, “What We Talk About When We Don’t Talk About Buildings,” on the website Common\Edge, gathers together some strands of discourse about architecture that I’ve posted on recently. Most particularly, I refer to a post called … Continue reading
Modern architecture is crazy
Among the most recent revelations of science in the service of architecture is that three of the most eminent founders of modern architecture suffered from mental illness. Le Corbusier was on the autism spectrum while Walter Gropius and Ludwig Mies … Continue reading
Even Soviets hated mods!
Ann Sussman, the architect/scientist whose neurobiological research has pinned down mental illness as a factor in modern architecture, sent me a video by a Russian cartoonist in 1976. It shows that even amid the official dominance of modernism under Stalin, … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Video
Tagged Animated Cartoons, Ann Sussman, Genetics of Design, Modern Architecture, Postmodern Architecture, Soviet Art
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