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Tag Archives: Architecture Here and There
Hollible, just hollible
Steven Holl’s addition to the Glasgow School of Art, whose 1909 original by the Scottish architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh is an icon of architects of every school, expresses the most profound disrespect for its neighbor. It eats one building and … Continue reading
Alex King lets it all hang out
Here is an interesting rant from the architect Alex King: I like what [James Howard] Kunstler says about ‘the new urbanism’ in his TED talk but think that part of the problem is not just with architects not appreciating the … Continue reading
Brown moves Green
Brown University moved the Peter Green House, an 1868 Victorian, out of the path of The Walk, a process that is captured in this entertaining video from, I think, 2007. As the comments reveal, Brown sought to erect a number … Continue reading
Column: An elegant guide to Brown’s campus
This week marks 250 years since the General Assembly passed a charter to found Rhode Island College, as it was first called, in the town of Warren, where it was first located. With a change of place in 1770 and … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Architecture Education, Architecture History, Book/Film Reviews, Preservation, Providence, Urbanism and planning
Tagged architecture, Architecture Here and There, Brown 250, Brown University, Brown University: The Campus Guide, David Brussat, Henry Wriston, Raymond Rhinhart, Walter Smalling
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Leon Krier’s tale of post-carbuncle London
Here is Leon Krier’s piece, “Sustainable Architecture and the Legible City,” just published in Britain’s Architectural Review. Krier recalls the atmosphere in London architectural circles after Prince Charles’s speech denouncing an addition to the National Gallery as “a carbuncle on … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Architecture History, Other countries, Providence, Uncategorized, Urbanism and planning
Tagged architecture, Architecture Here and There, Capital Center, Carbuncle, David Brussat, Joseph Paolino, Leon Krier, London, Planning, Prince Charles, Providence, Quinlan Terry, Urbanism
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Eric Daum: Gloria Dei, in Providence
I here reprint a lengthy and extraordinarily erudite, and elegant, essay by my friend and fellow board member of the New England chapter of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art. It was originally published on my Journal blog and … Continue reading
Shocking! Le Corbusier nude!
Pictured at left is founding modernist Le Corbusier in the nude, painting at the home of fellow modern architect Eileen Gray, in the south of France, a house she is said to have designed. (Though some say Corbusier actually designed … Continue reading
Chastity in art selection
As many readers of this blog are aware, it arises largely as a vehicle to reprint my column published in The Providence Journal. Readers can read the first few paragraphs of the column and then click on a link to … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Architecture History, Art and design, Books and Culture, Humor
Tagged Alma Gropius, architecture, Architecture Here and There, Conde Nast, Copyright, David Brusssat, GSD, Harvard, Ise Gropius, Le Corbusier, Roz Chast, The New Yorker, The Providence Journal, Walter Gorpius
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