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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
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Tagged Catesby Leigh, City Journal, Donald Trump, Dwight Eisenhower, Frank Gehry, Ryan Zinke
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Memorial news & views
George Weigel, the religious philosopher, replays the sad saga of the proposed memorial for Dwight Eisenhower in his essay “Ike Memorial No-Brainer,” from the National Review. Weigel urges Congress to dump Frank Gehry’s “Memorial To Myself” design that has already … Continue reading
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 image that a Hillary Clinton victory would have meant more of the same for how we build. Trump … Continue reading
No surrender to Gehry Ike
News that the Eisenhower family has been flipped and now supports the design of a proposed memorial to their patriarch by celebrity architect Frank Gehry is depressing, and maybe even predictable, but it’s too early for opponents of the monstrosity … Continue reading
Shubow’s fine Bulfinch talk
Justin Shubow’s recent talk in Boston, the first annual Bulfinch Awards Lecture, was delivered in the afternoon before that evening’s gala, thrown by the New England chapter of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art to celebrate the eight Bulfinch … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Architecture, Architecture Education, Architecture History, Art and design, Books and Culture, Preservation, Video
Tagged Boston MA, Bulfinch Awards, Dwight Eisenhower, First Bulfinch Lecture, Frank Gehry, George Washington, ICAA New England Chapter, Justin Shubow, Mies van der Rohe, National Civic Art Society, Thomas Jefferson
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Shubow to speak in Boston
Justin Shubow, president of the National Civic Art Society and a leading proponent of classical architecture, is also a leading opponent of modern architecture. He and his organization, along with the Eisenhower family, have led the fight against Frank Gehry’s … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Architecture, Architecture Education, Architecture History, Art and design, Preservation, Urbanism and planning
Tagged Bulfinch Awards, Bulfinch Awards Gala, Bulfinch Memorial Lecture, classical architecture, Eisenhower memorial, Frank Gehry, Justin Shubow, Modern Architecture, National Civic Art Society, Thomas Jefferson
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Twisted Sisters Prize of 2015
Architecture Here and There awards its first annual Twisted Sisters prize to critics Mark Lamster of the Dallas Morning News and Alexandra Lange of Curbed for their pairing off to produce “Architecture in Review 2015: The Good, the Bad and … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Architecture, Art and design, Books and Culture, Humor
Tagged Alexandra Lange, Curbed, Frank Gehry, ISIS, Jean Nouvel, Mark Lamster, Palmyra, Twisted Sisters
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Betsky waxes nostalgic
Aaron Betsky, regular columnist of Architect, mouthpiece of the American Institute of Architects, sees, in “Starchitects: The Next Generation,” the old guard of modern architecture being muscled aside by a new guard, who are winning big commissions and beginning to … Continue reading
Zum! Zum! Zum! Zumthor!
The forces of architecture in Los Angeles are clashing over the latest proposal, by Swiss architect and Pritzker prizewinner Peter Zumthor, for the new LACMA. What is the LACMA? A lengthy critique of an even lengthier critique of Zumthor’s design … Continue reading
Misconstruing “starchitect”
Kriston Capps’s piece for CityLab, “Leave Starchitects Alone,” is filled with so much hooey that I am embarrassed to be inflicting it on my readers. It is part of the continuing effort to tar opposition to modern architecture as partisan … Continue reading
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Tagged CityLab, Dwight Eisenhower Memorial, Frank Gehry, Justin Shubow, kriston capps, Leave Starchitects Alone, National Civic Art Society, National Review, Starchitecture
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