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Rome: Who are those guys?
Who are those guys? Good question. But first, I must point out that indecipherable notes on a recent lecture force me to leapfrog a topic I’d intended to address today and grab a quicky topic instead. I’ve chosen to simply … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized, Architecture, Photography
Tagged Beauty, Cities, classical architecture, Europe, Modern Architecture, Preservation, RIBA, Rome
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Steven Semes in Newport
The Redwood Library & Athenaeum will host a lecture by preservationist Steven Semes on Thursday, Aug. 16, at 6 p.m. Semes will discuss preservation news from around the world, partly about conventional misinterpretations of international preservation treaties, charters, texts and … Continue reading
We dodged the HQ2 bullet
Providence would have been slaughtered if Amazon had decided to build its second headquarters – HQ2 – in Rhode Island and its capital city. So for the loss of 50,000 well-paid jobs and sundry other benefits, we should not blame … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Development
Tagged Amazon, HQ2, Preservation, Providence RI, Rhode Island, Rhode Island Commerce Corporation, Superman Building, Urbanism
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Krier: Ruins and discontents
Since we are still on our reconstruction roll, here is an excellent essay by Leon Krier, architectural theorist and master planner of Prince Charles’s new town of Poundbury. It was originally intended as an introduction to The Roman Forum: A … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Preservation
Tagged Archaeology, classical architecture, Leon Krier, Preservation, Reconstruction, Roman Forum, Rome
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Rebuild the Roman Forum
Last October I described a master’s thesis on how to plan for a restoration of the Roman Forum – center of civic life in the capital of the Roman empire. The author, Eric Stalheim, was the first graduate of the … Continue reading
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
The uses of preservation
“The Uses of Corruption” is an essay by Theodore Dalrymple published in the Summer 2001 issue of City Journal, the quarterly of the Manhattan Institute. Dalrymple is a British sociologist and commentator who argues that Italy is more prosperous and … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Preservation
Tagged Administration, Beauty, Bureaucracy, City Journal, Corruption, Great Britain, Italy, Manhattan Institute, Preservation, Theodore Dalrymple, Wealth
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Save twin B’way cast-irons
In its length and breadth, Manhattan is a free art museum for all of those who will open their eyes, whether they are Knickerbocker heirs or hoboes from Hoboken. To walk down the street is to encounter museum-worthy works of … Continue reading
Own a free villa in Italy
Truly! Since not everyone is logged in to the roster of programmes gushing from Italy’s bureaucracy, such as it may be, check out this from the website Hyperallergic. Yes, Italy is giving away free castles, villas and other unused historic … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Development, Preservation
Tagged Development, Hyperallergic, Italian Bureaucracy, Italy, Preservation, Rome, Slow Tourism, Tourism
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Unwelcome Arnold House?
Is the Welcome Arnold House (circa 1785), on Planet Street in Fox Point, doomed to demolition by neglect? That’s the question posed by Catherine Zipf’s architecture column in today’s Providence Journal. She wonders whether its owner, Walter Bronhard, intends to … Continue reading
