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Tag Archives: Joel Pidel
Is this possible anymore?
Above is a photo of a town, Sémur-en-Auxois, in the Côte-d’Or, a department of northeastern France. Below is Sarlat-la-Canéda, in the Dordogne, another deparment, in the northeast. They are both beautiful, and it makes sense to wonder whether there is … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture
Tagged craft, France, Joel Pidel, Sara Hines, The Dordogne, Tom Low, Villages
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Doodles a la Oppenord
The sketchbook of G.M. Oppenord is offered by architect Joel Pidel, from his library. Joel throws it out for the pleasure of fellow TradArch list members, and someone ill prepared, as I am, to analyze the work between its covers … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Uncategorized
Tagged Architectural Rendering, art, G.M. Oppenort, Getty Research Institute, Joel Pidel, Sketch
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Revolutionary new museum!
About a year ago, the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown was completed, replacing the Yorktown Victory Center – a quotidian slanty modernist version of colonial (it is brick) – with a classical, quasi-Palladian building of considerable merit. Today, Virginia senior … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture
Tagged American Revolution Museum, Calder Loth, Joel Pidel, Palladio, TradArch, Westlake Reed Leskosky, Yorktown VA
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Macintosh library reveals all
Today is Charles Rennie Macintosh’s birthday, the 148th anniversary of his birth in 1868. Hats off to Joel Pidel and Paul Ranogajec for memorializing the event with the picture above. Paul also linked to an article in Archinect, “The architects … Continue reading
Recapture Joze Plecnik!
Hats off to Angelo Gueli*, who photographed and sent to TradArch a pair fascinating pages from a book he has acquired of the work of Slovenian architect Joze Plecnik (1872-1957). He is a favorite of Andrès Duany and a candidate … Continue reading
Ornament and Crimehaus
Recently, after several contributors to a TradArch discussion of Adolf Loos and his famous building in Vienna, Andres Duany pointed out that the windows in the upper floors don’t align with the building’s ground-floor features. Earlier comments had referred to … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Architecture History, Blast from past, Other countries
Tagged Adolf Loos, classicism, Joel Pidel, Looshaus, modernism, Vienna
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Quoins on the shop floor
There are many categories of architecture porn. (I hasten to say that’s a good thing.) One of my favorites is long lists in prose of ornamentation. So I was, shall we say, charmed to read architect Joel Pidel’s recent thread … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art and design
Tagged Andres Duany, Architecture Porn, art, Joel Pidel, Marketing, Michael Rouchell, Ornament, Sales
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