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Video: Restored in Frankfurt
Leon Krier has sent a brief video, 57 seconds in all, of the recently completed restoration, in Frankfurt, Germany, of that city’s Huhner Markt area, Almost as pleasing as what the video reveals is what it replaces – in Krier’s … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Development, Video
Tagged Frankfurt, Germany, Huhner Markt, Restoration, Video, YouTube
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Millais on rebuilding Berlin
Malcolm Millais, author of Le Corbusier, the Dishonest Architect and Exploding the Myths of Modern Architecture, recently visited Berlin, in part to investigate four examples of how Germans have reconstructed historic buildings damaged by Allied bombs in World War II. … Continue reading
Millais vs. Le Corbusier
Malcolm Millais, the author of Exploding the Myths of Modern Architecture, has written Le Corbusier, the Dishonest Architect, brought out in Britain by Cambridge Scholars Publishing, of Newcastle upon Tyne. It is a brave book and a necessary book, a … Continue reading
Color film of Berlin in 1900
Although three decades had passed since the Franco-Prussian War and another decade and a half awaited World War I, the Berliners in this 1900 color film (with some 1914 scenes toward the end) of their city appear depressed. The elegance … Continue reading
Hamburg in the crosshairs
The annual G20 conference of the world’s major economies met in Hamburg last week, with leaders convening in palaces and demonstrators rioting in the streets. It brought to mind the cheerful violence that greeted me and my brother, Tony, on … Continue reading
Yale lecture: Krier on Speer
Léon Krier does not seem to dislike modern architecture as much as I do, but he may dislike it with much more passion. The architectural theorist, master planner of Prince Charles’s new town Poundbury, and practitioner of his own edgy … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Architecture History, Video
Tagged Albert Speer, Germany, Hitler, Leon Krier, Nazi Germany, Yale
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The good cheer of beauty
Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray, was published as a serial novel of 20 monthly parts in issues of Punch magazine from January 1847 to July 1848. So next month will be the 170th anniversary of its appearance in print. … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Books and Culture
Tagged Amelia Sedley, Beauty, Becky Sharp, Germany, Mozart, Opera, Rhine Valley, Thackeray, Vanity Fair
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Music and architecture, cont.
In October, Roger Scruton visited the belly of the musical beast, in Germany, to deliver a lecture against atonal composition. It was as if the superhero of classical architecture, Henry Hope Reed, arose from his grave to address the celebrants … Continue reading
Hitler’s revenge on America
The journal Places has published, as the inaugural installment in its Future Archive series of forgotten writing of the past century, a 1968 essay for Art in America by Sibyl Moholy-Nagy called “Hitler’s Revenge.” The essay is introduced by Despina … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Architecture, Architecture Education, Architecture History, Art and design, Development, Preservation, Urbanism and planning
Tagged Ada Louise Huxtable, Bauhaus, Despina Stratigakos, Germany, Hitler, Jane Jacobs, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Marcel Breuer, Mies van der Rohe, Places Journal, Sibyl Moholy-Navy, University of Buffalo, Walter Gropius
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Epiphany in Stuttgart
My brother, his wife Sabrina and her two sons stayed a stretch in Germany for treatment of the two sons’ Lyme disease – successful treatment, by the way. They were in Stuttgart when Tony, a noted philosopher of the mind/body/nature continuum, … Continue reading
