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Tag Archives: Pastiche
Pop the “historicist” bugaboo
The architectural theorist Nikos Salingaros recently urged me to bar the use of the words historicist and pastiche, which modernists use to criticize architecture by traditionalists. “The modernists are forewarned that their favorite terms of insult are now off-limits,” quoth … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture
Tagged Historicist, Jan Michl, Karl Popper, Modern Architecture, Nikos Salingaros, Pastiche
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Trad and not so trad
An architectural designer with a background in preservation and traditional design, who asked to be posted anonymously, joins a host of commenters criticizing my praise for Stan Weiss’s interior design. They include Eric Daum, Seth Joseph Weine, Nikos Salingaros, Patrick … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Uncategorized
Tagged Anthony James, Architectural Language, Bad Trad, classical architecture, Classical Orders, Kitsch, Pastiche, Tradition
2 Comments
Architecture Here and There 