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Column: How Providence muffed the decade

12:03 PM Thu, Dec 31, 2009 | Permalink |

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By David Brussat

Illustrations: Above, Providence Place (center right) and GTECH (far left) symbolize, respectively, the '90s and '00s. Clicking on picture will call it up in much larger format. Below, in order, are the GTECH building, the BCBS building (left) and......

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Tags architecture Providence RI Steven Semes The Future of the Past

Coming up: Poor report card for Providence this past decade

9:14 PM Tue, Dec 29, 2009 | Permalink | Write a

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By David Brussat

Illustrations: Above, Providence Place in 2001 seen beyond Waterplace Park on a WaterFire night. The Marriott Courtyard is at the far left and the Westin Hotel beyond it. This photo, so lovely it seems like a painting, is by......

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Tags architecture Bill Warner Future of the Past GTECH modernism Providence Place Providence RI Steven Semes WaterFire

Column: The lady who saved Greenwich Village

9:17 AM Thu, Dec 24, 2009 | Permalink |

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By David Brussat

Illustration: Robert Moses stands with model of proposed Battery Bridge (unbuilt) in 1939. (Library of Congress) * * * Robert Moses, as chairman of the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority and at times up to 12 appointed posts simultaneously,......

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Tags Anthony Flint Greenwich Village Jane Jacobs New York Robert Moses Wrestling with Moses

Coming up: Holy Moses, get the man a Rolaids!

10:47 PM Mon, Dec 21, 2009 | Permalink | Write a

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By David Brussat

Readers who are dissatisfied by my niggardly use of quotations from the book I review this week - mentioned in last week's review of a book that's mentioned in this week's review - can dip into my Dec. 8 blog......

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Tags Anthony Flint Jane Jacobs modern architecture New York Robert Moses Wrestling with Moses

Column: How to preserve the future of the past

8:12 AM Thu, Dec 17, 2009 | Permalink |

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By David Brussat

Illustration: Above left, the Harvard Club (1892), designed by McKim Mead & White, with its 2004 addition, on West 44th Street in New York; right, a computer rendering of the counter-proposal by Cameron, Cameron & Taylor. (From The Future......

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Tags architecture modernism planning preservation Steven Semes The Future of the Past urbanism

Strange and wonderous article out of nowhere (OK, out of WSJ)

9:45 PM Tue, Dec 15, 2009 | Permalink | Write a

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By David Brussat

Illustration: Above, Illinois Institute of Technology, campus designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (below) in the 1940s and '50s. * * * Sometimes, unaccountably, an article will appear that seems to have no reason to exist, and seems......

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Tags Ada Louise Huxtable enemy combatants Eric Felten Illinois Institute of Technology Mies van der Rohe Wall Street Journal

Coming up: Review of "The Future of the Past"

8:53 PM Tue, Dec 15, 2009 | Permalink | Write a

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By David Brussat

Some who read my review on Thursday of Steven Semes's "The Future of the Past," will conclude that I've finally gone too far in praising the excellence of a book. Let me assure them, my review reflects a muted version......

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Tags architecture modernism planning preservation Steven Semes The Future of the Past urbanism

Classical blasts at ICA&CA in Boston and New York

9:02 PM Sat, Dec 12, 2009 | Permalink | Write a

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By David Brussat

Illustrations: The New York Racquet & Tennis Club; party-goers examining items from Shepley Bulfinch archives at New England ICA&CA party; sketch from the archives; crowd at ICA&CA party in New York; across Park Avenue from Racquet Club ... timber!......

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Tags Boston Institute for Classical Architect & Classical America New York Racquet & Tennis Club Shepley Bulfinch

Pei crumbles, Pope reigns: National Gallery vs. National Gallery

8:12 PM Sat, Dec 12, 2009 | Permalink |

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By David Brussat

The National Gallery of Art, in Washington, was designed by John Russell Pope in a spare classical style and opened in 1941. Thirty-six years later saw the opening of its so-called East Wing, designed by I.M. Pei in a......

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Tags I.M. Pei John Russell Pope National Gallery of Art Washington DC

Review: 'Wrestling With Moses,' by Anthony Flint

3:34 PM Tue, Dec 08, 2009 | Permalink | Write a

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By David Brussat

Illustrations: Above, Jane Jacobs at White Horse Tavern in Greenwich Village; below, cover of "Wrestling With Moses"; bottom, Robert Moses * * * Most people in the planning and architectural communities know that Jane Jacobs beat Robert Moses in......

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Tags Anthony Flint Jane Jacobs modern architecture New York planning Robert Moses Wrestling with Moses

Leon Krier invades Providence

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By David Brussat

* * * Leon Krier, the famous architectural theorist, lectured Providence at Brown University last night, leaving no one in any doubt about his prickly architectural world view. Expressing his witty self in his ineffable Luxembourgian accent, showing his......

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Tags architecture Brown University Congress of the New Urbanism Leon Krier planning Providence RI

Coming up: Two quotations from Tom Wolfe

8:33 PM Wed, Dec 02, 2009 | Permalink | Write a

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By David Brussat

Illustrations: Tom Wolfe in 1978, Philip Johnson, Le Corbusier * * * Since I am on vacation there will be no column this Thursday or next Thursday. To atone for this atrocity, I offer up two quotes from Tom Wolfe's......

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Tags From Our House to Bauhaus Le Corbusier Philip Johnson Tom Wolfe

Architecture Here and There

December 2009 Archives

Column: How Providence muffed the decade

Coming up: Poor report card for Providence this past decade

Column: The lady who saved Greenwich Village

Coming up: Holy Moses, get the man a Rolaids!

Column: How to preserve the future of the past

Strange and wonderous article out of nowhere (OK, out of WSJ)

Coming up: Review of "The Future of the Past"

Classical blasts at ICA&CA in Boston and New York

Pei crumbles, Pope reigns: National Gallery vs. National Gallery

Review: 'Wrestling With Moses,' by Anthony Flint

Leon Krier invades Providence

Coming up: Two quotations from Tom Wolfe

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