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Nice try

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By David Brussat    Email

Nice head. 'Nuff said. Actually, that's not a building but a fish. It could be a fish commenting on a building in the photo essay by Witold Rybczynski, from Slate, about modern marvels gone wrong. "Nice try" was the......

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 Tags  Architecture   Failure   Modern Architecture   Original Green   Slate   Steve Mouzon  

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Column: Today's preservation ethic is destructive

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By David Brussat    Email

Illustrations: Above, Leon Krier parody (1985) of London't historic Downing Street with modernist intervention (p. 113) (From The Future of the Past, 2009, W.W. Norton); below, front cover of book, with renovated Soldier Field, in Chicago * * *......

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 Tags  Architecture   Future of the Past   Leon Krier   Modernism   Preservation   Steven Semes  

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Coming up: More grief for preservationists

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By David Brussat    Email

Tomorrow's column is not what I had intended to write at the start. It is impossible to open to a stray page of Steven Semes's "The Future of the Past" without alighting upon a passage so pregnant with pungency......

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 Tags  Architecture   Modern Architecture   Preservation   Steven Semes   The Future of the Past  

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