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Tag Archives: Culture
Creative capitulation in Prov
In recent decades, art in Providence has served as a wrecking ball aimed not just at beauty but at the very concept of art, in a city that depends on art for its historical character, even as it brands itself … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art and design, Providence
Tagged Antifa, art, Culture, Gillian Christy, Providence RI, RIDOT Bus Shelters, Steven Siegel, The Avenue Concept
12 Comments
Is architecture charming?
Although it says nothing of architecture, an essay by Joseph Epstein on charm causes me to wonder whether architecture can be charming. His essay, “Life’s Little Luxury,” in The Weekly Standard, is discursive, that is, it rambles round, making its … Continue reading
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
More music & architecture
The Future Symphony Institute’s newest fellow, the composer John Borstlap, has written the latest in a string of essays that speak of music in ways that bring to mind architecture. Here is a paragraph from “Classical Modernity“: Is there any … Continue reading
Psychitecture? Dig it, baby!
Psychitecture is one of those coinages enabled by the word architecture. The word psychotecture springs immediately to mind, and there’s a blog called Architorture, which is brilliant, except that it is by a coed, Celina, at Cal Poly San Luis … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Architecture Education, Art and design, Books and Culture, Humor
Tagged Architorture, Blogs, Culture, Gary Brewer, Los Angeles, Neologism, Psychitecture, Rachel Melvald
7 Comments
Hopeful video from ISIS?
Here is a three-minute video apparently from ISIS entitled “ISIS Vows Not To Bulldoze Palmyra Architecture (Only Statues),” with a text translated on-screen. The authenticity of this statement has not been confirmed but is considered likely. The Blouinartinfo Blogs article … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Architecture History, Other countries, Preservation, Video
Tagged Archaeology, Culture, Humanitarian, ISIS, Palmyra, Roman Ruins, Stephennie Mulder, Syria
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Why is modern art so bad?
Malcolm Millais, author of Exploding the Myths of Modern Architecture and an upcoming book correcting the record on Le Corbusier, sent me a video of an artist, Robert Florczak, at Prager University, explaining the erosion of standards in the art world … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art and design, Humor, Video
Tagged art, Criticism, Culture, Malcolm Millais, Modern Art, Pollack, Rauschenberg, Robert Florczak
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Nathaniel Robert Walker: Architecture and food
My friend Nathaniel Walker, who got his doctorate at Brown last spring and now teaches architectural history at the College of Charleston, has contributed this essay. * * * From the Ground Up: How Architects Can Learn from the Organic and … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art and design, Humor
Tagged Cuisine, Culture, Food, modernism, Tradition
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Architecture Here and There 