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February 2010 Archives
12:55 PM Sat, Feb 27, 2010 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat  Email
This Magnitude-20 exclamation point work of wonderment, newly completed, is in Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan, in Russia. It is the agricultural administrative complex. When you open it up, you will ask whether I am pulling your leg. I......
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8:16 AM Thu, Feb 25, 2010 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Illustrations: Above, from the rear jacket cover of New Classic American Houses (Vendome Press, 2009) * * * BOSTON How creative can you get in toying with traditional architecture and still be traditional? The question was posed in a......
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8:16 AM Wed, Feb 24, 2010 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
How far can creativity be taken in architecture before tradition is traduced? As a prelude to Thursday's column, about a new book, New Classic American Homes, on the work of the Boston firm Albert, Righter & Tittmann, I offer......
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12:45 PM Mon, Feb 22, 2010 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
I congratulate Boston Globe architecture critic Robert Campbell for his column ("Should this building be razed? Says who?") on a Brit passion for architecture so intense that the public is permitted to decide which buildings are too ugly to remain......
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8:02 AM Thu, Feb 18, 2010 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Illustrations: The addition to the John Carter Brown Library, in Providence, is on the right; below, RISD Museum of Art, in Providence; the Guggenheim Museum, in New York; Dulles International Airport, in Virginia; the University of Chicago law library.......
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12:43 PM Wed, Feb 17, 2010 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
The failure of the ballyhooed physical remains of Olympics past to help regenerate their communities has been widely documented. Here's an essay in BDonline about the Olypmic future - a new report predicts that the new architecture for the 2012......
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12:31 PM Wed, Feb 17, 2010 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
This piece by Simon Heffer in the UK Telegraph voices concern at some of the terrible buildings designed of late. He takes particular exception to Daniel Libeskind's vile addition to the Dresden Military History Museum. Although Heffer is still......
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9:03 AM Wed, Feb 17, 2010 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
In preparing to write tomorrow's column on additions, I solicited from members of the TradArch list examples of modernist buildings with additions in the same modernist style, and of modernist buildings with additions in a traditional style. The above......
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12:33 PM Sat, Feb 13, 2010 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Illustration: House on College Hill designed by Friedrich St. Florian A hilarious set of photos, mostly from Dwell magazine, with the thoughts of the occupants of modernist houses, can be enjoyed here. The "Learn more about the author" icon seems......
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8:00 AM Thu, Feb 11, 2010 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Illustrations: Soldier Field, in Chicago, with the alien addition that led to the stadium's removal from the National Register of Historic Places; John Carter Brown Library on Brown campus in Providence, with 1991 addition; Buddy Cianci; Renzo Piano's proposed tower......
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10:54 PM Wed, Feb 10, 2010 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
TradArch lister John Massengale, a "recovering architect" who writes a fine blog, Veritas & Venustas, shares, at the behest of another lister, a trip down memory lane via the journal Inland Architect, circa 1988. His piece, "Mr. Manners Goes to......
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8:27 PM Wed, Feb 10, 2010 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Illustrations: Buddy Cianci (twice convicted former mayor of Providence, now a radio talk show felon) with Gerald Ford; Cianci was a prosecutor who tried cases of corruption before his first mayoral term in the mid-'70s; not Cianci today but......
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9:53 PM Mon, Feb 08, 2010 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
This video of just over four minutes shows London in 1903, shooting about 10 or 20 seconds at successive famous intersections with famous buildings as backdrop. Some at times of heavy traffic, some at times of light. Not sure......
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12:32 PM Thu, Feb 04, 2010 | Permalink |
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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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7:21 AM Thu, Feb 04, 2010 | Permalink |
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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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6:23 AM Wed, Feb 03, 2010 | Permalink |
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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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