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Arthur Ross Awards, 2017
Back in 2013 I visited Chicago to attend the celebration of that year’s Driehaus Prize laureate, Thomas Beeby. Amid the festivities was a large landscape in oil that included work by all of the first ten Driehaus recipients, commissioned by … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Ross Awards, Carl Laubin, Driehaus Prize, ICAA, Peter Pennoyer, Thomas Gordon Smith
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My TB post on style wars
Here is the January post for my blog at Traditional Building: “Assertively Classical: Thomas Gordon Smith at Notre Dame” was written before the already intense political climate intensified by two- or three-fold after the inauguration of that successful entertainer. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Donald Trump, Notre Dame, Penn Station, Thomas Gordon Smith, Traditional Building
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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
Another classical courthouse
Tuscaloosa recently saw the completion of a beautiful classical courthouse, federal, that might have stepped directly off the Acropolis in Athens. Now Mobile, seems about to begin building a beautiful classical courthouse, also federal, designed by the Washington, D.C., firm … Continue reading
Return to the establishment
It appears that tradition has begun its long march back through the institutions, at least in Britain. Oliver Wainwright’s latest piece in the Guardian, reprinted in Architectural Record, is “The Tories’ New Design Guide Backs Tiny, Unlivable, Backward-Looking Homes.” It … Continue reading
