Tag Archives: TradArch

Please hit ‘follow’ for blog

Posted on March 18, 2016 by David Brussat

The gatekeepers are still trying to frog-march my blog out of your inbox. I have not sent forth this reminder for a while. Until my email server quits intercepting my bulk posts under the (false) suspicion that they are spam, … Continue reading →

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New blog, old conversation

Posted on February 16, 2016 by David Brussat

The following is the first post published on my new blog with Traditional Building and Period Homes magazines. These are monthly and will be posted on this blog a month following their posting at TB and PH. My second post … Continue reading →

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Rome’s exaltation explained

Posted on January 6, 2016 by David Brussat

I’ve always been intrigued by Rome – which I visited in 1990 – not just by its extraordinarily beauty and its ruins, but by the story of how its ancient leaders conceived the city as a crescendo of classicism in … Continue reading →

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Christmas card community

Posted on December 22, 2015 by David Brussat

Tom Low responded to a request on TradArch from architect Steve Mouzon for comment, thumbs up or down, on a new neighborhood in Bentonville, Ark., featured in Architect magazine, voice of the AIA (which traditionally hates traditional architecture). Low replied … Continue reading →

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Where eagles darechitecture

Posted on December 15, 2015 by David Brussat

This startling proposal of a supertallsuperthin residential tower showed up on TradArch the other day, sent by David Rau, who objects to the machined element of its ornament. His email set off a long debate about natural and unnatural materials … Continue reading →

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“Imitation and Innovation”

Posted on December 11, 2015 by David Brussat

Robert Adam has an essay in a volume of Architectural Design published in 1988 on the topic of “Imitation and Innovation,” filled with what I would call architectural pornography of the most extreme pulchritude. I was sent the volume out … Continue reading →

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Next for the classical revival?

Posted on May 24, 2015 by David Brussat

What those who favor traditional architecture should do to promote its revival has been pretty much the subject of this blog since I started it in 2009. In fact, the strategy I favor has the advantage of being under way … Continue reading →

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Fisticuffs at garden party?

Posted on April 12, 2015 by David Brussat

Not yet! This reporter can state categorically that no roundhouse punches were signed, sealed or delivered at yesterday evening’s TradArch garden party, in Charleston, at least none that William Hazlitt would feel obliged to discuss in a latter-day version of … Continue reading →

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To the TradArch conference!

Posted on April 9, 2015 by David Brussat

Tomorrow I jet down to Charleston, S.C., to confer on matters architectural with people I’ve never met but with whom readers of this blog are familiar. They are the TradArch family of architects and architectural busybodies (like me). Before I … Continue reading →

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Monkey with a T-square?

Posted on April 7, 2015 by David Brussat

“Hetero or not?” and “Is this classical?” are parlor games played by members of the TradArch list, the online discussion group for classical architects. Will classicists find a particular building “canonical” or outside of the canon? Recently, a thread of … Continue reading →

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