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What next? Jefferson? D.C.?
The statue of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville should not be pulled down. Or rather, I should prefer that it not be pulled down. There’s a difference. To eradicate every symbol of every political or cultural wrong in this or … Continue reading
Drabble does ornament
I’m close to the end of Margaret Drabble’s The Ice Age. I posted a short while ago some passages on the attitudes of developers in postwar Britain (“Inside Drabble’s developer“). Now the father of her developer protagonist has died and … Continue reading
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Tagged Cathedral, classical architecture, Craftsmenship, Margaret Drabble, Ornament, Religion, Stone Carving, The Ice Age
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D.C. classical tours return
Washington, D.C., is among the nation’s if not the world’s most walkable big cities, and this year the town’s leading advocate for beauty, the National Civic Art Society, returns with a new slate of its walking tours. Moreover, because the … Continue reading
Classicism’s relevance today
The Boston Design Center in the city’s Innovation District hosted a panel today, as part of Boston Design Week, on the relevance of classicism in contemporary design. All five panelists agreed that yes, classicism is still relevant. Classicism has a … Continue reading
Adam on classical language
Robert Adam in his book Classic Columns addresses a topic many have addressed but at far greater depth of perception. Few can fail to perceive that classical architecture is a language and that it evolves slowly just as the English … Continue reading
A lovely 3 minutes in Rome
Here is a video of Rome, with some clips from Pisa and Vatican City, sent to me by Big Geek Daddy. Actually, they sent a video of Barcelona, but it was marred by too much focus on special effects, though … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art and design, Video
Tagged Archaeology, art, Beauty, Big Geek Daddy, classical architecture, Leaning Tower of Pisa, Pisa, Roman Ruins, Rome, Video
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Block Island weather station
My South County correspondent, Cliff Vanover, mapmaker extraordinaire, sent me the photo above of a fine old house on Block Island’s Beach Road. It was originally built and for a long time served as a weather station for the U.S. … Continue reading
Less is more … or a bore?
Happy belated birthday (it was June 24) to Robert Venturi, avatar of the postmodern movement in architecture and the self-appointed rebutter-in-chief to arch-modernist Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and his infamous dictum. In the battle of slogans, “Less is more” … Continue reading
Who owns Europe’s night?
Videographer Luke Shepard and a companion traveled through 36 cities in 21 European countries to film “Nightvision: The Brilliance and Diversity of Euoropean Architecture.” It captures buildings of both chief types, old and new, traditional and modernist They are different. … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty, Cities, classical architecture, Luke Shepard, modernism, Night Lighting, Nightvision, Video
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Our buildings, our selves
Ann Sussman, author with Justin Hollander of Cognitive Architecture, has an article in Planning magazine, “Planning for the Subconscious,” that suggests that the millennia-long evolution of how we shape buildings and places placates the inner urges of our minds and … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Architecture, Architecture Education, Architecture History, Art and design, Books and Culture, Development, Urbanism and planning
Tagged Ann Sussman, Biology, Biometrics, Boston, Brain, Christopher Alexander, classical architecture, Hancock Tower, Modern Architecture, Neuroscience, Nikos Salingaros, Perception, Science, Trinity Church
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