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Kool House. Koolhaas. Kookhaas. Kook House.

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By David Brussat    Email

Rem Koolhaas designed a house for a rich client handicapped in an automobile accident. The house features a central core of a round platform/elevator open to the floors around it. Ada Louise Huxtable has written a review of a......

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 Tags  Ada Louise Huxtable   architecture   Jacques Tati   modernism   Rem Koolhaas   Wall Street Journal  

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Coming up: Hot little building vs. parking leviathan

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By David Brussat    Email

The photo above, taken this evening on my way home from work, shows how crucial the Arnold Building is to the fabric of Washington Street, in downtown Providence. The poor Arnold was struck by a serious fire last week......

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 Tags  Arnold Building   downtown   fire   parking   Providence RI  

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Column: Exploding modernism's myths

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By David Brussat    Email

Illustration: "Modern Movement reality," by Louis Hellman: The legacy of founding modernist Le Corbusier (From Exploding the Myths of Modern Architecture, Frances Lincoln Ltd., London, 2009) * * * EXPOSÉS of modern architecture have seen through the emperor's new......

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 Tags  architecture   Exploding the Myths of Modern Architecture   Le Corbusier   Malcolm Millais  

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Coming up: An explosive review

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By David Brussat    Email

Exploding the Myths of Modern Architecture, by Brit engineer Malcolm Millais (published by Francis Lincoln Ltd.), has just been published in this country. It knocked my socks off, and readers' socks will be knocked off too if they read the......

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 Tags  architecture   Corbusier   engineering   Exploding the Myths of Modern Architecture   Malcolm Millais  

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Sneering at Britain's new old high courthouse

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By David Brussat    Email

Parliament has created a new upper court, called the "Supreme Court," for Britain and instead of spending millions on a carbuncle has put millions to better use by renovating an old building near Parliament. It's a lovely one, somewhat hidden......

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 Tags  architecture   British Supreme Court   Gilbert & Sullivan   Hugh Pearman   Middlesex Guildhall  

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Column: Architects mix and match online

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By David Brussat    Email

Illustrations: Above: mausoleum in Russia (1808). Below, top left: library in Stockholm (1928); bottom left: chapel in Ronchamp (1954). Credits: Above, Calder Loth; below: top left, Dino Marcantonio; bottom left, Wikipedia * * * EVERY FRIDAY, a photo of......

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 Tags  architecture   Calder Loth   Dino Marcantonio   Gary Brewer   Steve Mouzon   TradArch List  

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Coming up: Civil conversation, for a change

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By David Brussat    Email

What connects this lively temple (actually a Russian mausoleum) to Gertrude Stein? Well, let's just call it a pleasant conversation among unalike-minded classical architects who can certainly bend language this way and that - and mutules, too! So come join......

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 Tags  architecture   Calder Loth   Dino Marcantonio   Gary Brewer   language   Steve Mouzon   TradArch list  

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Parsing the classical temples of India

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By David Brussat    Email

My column "Meet the real international style" (Sept. 3) made its way to Prof. Krupali Uplekar at Notre Dame, who sent me word of her and her students' work to identify the blood lines of the temple architecture of India......

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 Tags  architecture   classical   India   international style   Krupali Uplekar   Notre Dame   temples  

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Column: Gilded Age of maps in Newport

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By David Brussat    Email

Illustration: From front side of Newport map "Cliff Walk & Bellevue Avenue," by Cliff Vanover. Courtesy of Great Swamp Press. * * * IT TOOK a guy named Cliff to do the Cliff Walk proud. Cliff Vanover, of Charlestown,......

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 Tags  architecture   Bellevue Avenue   cartography   Cliff Vanover   Cliff Walk   Great Swamp Press   map   Newport RI  

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Coming up: Cartography resurgent in Newport

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By David Brussat    Email

Cliff Vanover has created a map of Newport south of Memorial Boulevard, embracing the Cliff Walk and Bellevue Avenue, that revives the lost art of map making. What do modern cartography and modern architecture have in common? A hatred......

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 Tags  architecture   Bellevue Avenue   Cliff Vanover   Cliff Walk   Newport RI  

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Column: Meet the real international style

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By David Brussat    Email

Illustration: Kandariya Mahadeva Temple (circa 1025-50), in Khajuraho, India (from World Architecture: The Masterworks, by Will Pryce) Note: Trying to get a higher-res version, plus one of temple in Java mentioned below. THE 1956 EPIC Around the World in......

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 Tags  architecture   Around the World in 80 Days   Vitruvius   Will Pryce   World Architecture: The Masterworks  

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2009 Carbuncle Prize: And the winner is . . .

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By David Brussat    Email

. . . The Liverpool Ferry Terminal. It seems the enchanting fire station sponsored by Prince Charles dodged a bullet. It was included as a spiteful sort of ideological repartee, but it appears that the sponsors of this contest -......

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 Tags  architecture   BDonline   Carbuncle Prize   Prince Charles  

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Coming up: What is the real International Style?

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By David Brussat    Email

The 1956 film Around the World in 80 Days took moviegoers on a voyage to the world's major cultures as its protagonists, David Niven, Shirley McLaine and Cantinflas (the famous Mexican acrobat who plays valet to Brit snit Phileas Fogg)......

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 Tags  architecture   Around the World in 80 Days   Will Pryce   World Architecture  

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