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Tag Archives: City Journal
Comparing Italy and Britain
What makes a good society? Part of the answer is good architecture. Yet the good that is done by good architecture reaches well beyond beauty. Good architecture does much to create the conditions in which health, prosperity and happiness grow. … Continue reading
Catesby Leigh on Penn Sta.
The National Civic Art Society, in Washington, has named the critic Catesby Leigh, one of its co-founders and early board chairmen, as its research fellow for 2018-2019. This salutary honor will enable Leigh to continue studying the phenomenon of monuments, … Continue reading
Berlinski: Sacking of Paris
Claire Berlinski’s masterful summary of the sad situation in Paris is out in the latest City Journal under the title, “The Architectural Sacking of Paris.” I am looking also for Joe Queenan’s no doubt hilarious essay “London Beats Paris in … Continue reading
The uses of preservation
“The Uses of Corruption” is an essay by Theodore Dalrymple published in the Summer 2001 issue of City Journal, the quarterly of the Manhattan Institute. Dalrymple is a British sociologist and commentator who argues that Italy is more prosperous and … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Preservation
Tagged Administration, Beauty, Bureaucracy, City Journal, Corruption, Great Britain, Italy, Manhattan Institute, Preservation, Theodore Dalrymple, Wealth
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Fix in on worse Ike Gehry
Catesby Leigh, writing in City Journal, reports the terrible news about the Frank Gehry designed proposal for an Eisenhower memorial. The formerly skeptical Eisenhower family now backs it. President Trump now backs it. In his proposed 2018 budget, Trump throws … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture
Tagged Catesby Leigh, City Journal, Donald Trump, Dwight Eisenhower, Frank Gehry, Ryan Zinke
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Vote’s “style wars” tea leaves
It’s hard to say, to say the least, what, if anything, Donald Trump’s victory may mean for architecture. It is easier to imagine that a Hillary Clinton win would have meant more of the same for how we build. Trump … Continue reading
Time to redo Lincoln Center
The Future Symphony Institute has reprinted on its website three plans to rebuild Lincoln Center, published in the autumn 2000 issue of City Journal, the quarterly of the Manhattan Institute. “A New Lincoln Center,” though or in fact because it … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture
Tagged City Journal, Lincoln Center, Myron Magnet, New York, Quinlan Terry, Robert Adam
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Allan Greenberg’s classicism
While the contagion of “global architecture” today dilutes the individual character of our cities, turning them into bland collections of interchangeable buildings, we now have voices offering a fresh choice: classical architecture based on local traditions and ideals. With the … Continue reading
Kimmelman swoops Whitney
It took Theodore Dalrymple, an essayist for the Manhattan Institute’s splendid quarterly, City Journal, to pull back the curtain on the operatic vapidity of New York Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman. The latter has written his architectural review of the … Continue reading