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August 2010 Archives
11:41 PM Tue, Aug 31, 2010 | Permalink |
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Readers of this blog were entertained a week or so ago by word of the German modernists' reaction, apparently, to Der Spiegel's long article on how much Germans dislike the architecture inflicted upon the nation by its postwar leadership.......
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8:25 AM Thu, Aug 26, 2010 | Permalink |
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Illustrations: Above, the Massachusetts State House, designed by Charles Bulfinch, photographed in 1863; below, the State House today; Charles Bulfinch; Thomas Bulfinch; the Bulfinch Hotel; the Flatiron Building; the College Club of Boston, on Commonwealth Avenue, where the New......
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7:38 AM Wed, Aug 25, 2010 | Permalink |
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Ugly has its Pritzker Prize, usually referred to as architecture's Nobel (without noting that adult architects are prohibited from winning). Beauty has its Ross and Driehaus awards, given to adult (that is, classical) architects in America and around the......
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8:32 PM Mon, Aug 23, 2010 | Permalink |
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Here is the full article from Der Spiegel whose excerpt inspired yesterday's blog post "It had to come to this." I think this article must have been assembled in reaction to the piece, also in Der Spiegel, that inspired......
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12:18 AM Sun, Aug 22, 2010 | Permalink |
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I have to imagine that the above building, designed by uber-modernist Walter Gropius, called the Bauhausarchiv Museum (at right), is among those referred to in this article from The Architectural Record's online site. The Bowwowarchiv, really. The Germans are......
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5:46 PM Sat, Aug 21, 2010 | Permalink |
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Here is a report of behind-the-scenes groveling and apologetics regarding the suit that the Candy brothers (left) allegedly "won" against the Qataris en re the villain Charles, Prince of Wales, who le tout press interpreted as having suffered an embarrassing......
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10:11 PM Fri, Aug 20, 2010 | Permalink |
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I am indebted to Michael M. Menges, of Hannover, Germany, and Little Compton, R.I., for correcting my faulty memory of a building my brother and I saw on a trip to Berlin in 2000. The photo at left above precedes......
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9:47 PM Fri, Aug 20, 2010 | Permalink |
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This brief pensee was passed along to the TradArch list by Michael Mehaffy. It is a second thought about the NAR's decision, years ago, to build a headquarters in Washington of the typical glass-sheathed modernist style. No date was provided.......
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7:49 AM Thu, Aug 19, 2010 | Permalink |
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Illustrations: Above, the Neue Nationalgalerie, in Berlin, opened in 1968, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and inspected by my brother Tony on a trip in 2000; below, Cologne after war; rebuilt house of Goethe's birth; typical residential......
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8:33 AM Wed, Aug 18, 2010 | Permalink |
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No, this is not about the neo-Nazis, but it is about the extent to which modern architecture in Germany after the war was influenced by architects tied to the Hitler regime. Yes, I too thought the Bauhaus was a......
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10:39 PM Sun, Aug 15, 2010 | Permalink |
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Amusing takedown of Vanity Fair's recent list, by Norman Weinstein, published by archnewsnow.com. And here's the Vanity Fair list itself. The article introducing the list, which of course anoints Frank O! Gehry as top dog, contains a quote that......
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5:29 PM Sat, Aug 14, 2010 | Permalink |
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This fine series in der Spiegel about modern architecture versus restoration in postwar Germany comes to me from Kristen Richards's indispensable site archnewsnow.com. It's written from an unusual perspective that takes it as almost a given that postwar modern......
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7:40 AM Thu, Aug 12, 2010 | Permalink |
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Illustrations: Above, artists dine outside AS220, on Empire Street, in Providence. Below, AS220 founder and artistic director Umberto "Bert" Crenca (click to enlarge); the Dreyfus Hotel, renovated in 2007 (note Mercantile Block just beyond, renovated in 2010); Mercantile Block......
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9:49 PM Wed, Aug 11, 2010 | Permalink |
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The Foo Festival is not mentioned in tomorrow's column about AS220 on its 25th anniversary, nor is the name of its restaurant, called, I believe, "Foo(d)" or something like that. Still, an assessment of AS220's role in leadership of......
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8:31 AM Thu, Aug 05, 2010 | Permalink |
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Illustrations: Providence's Waterplace has buildings that ManTowNHuman would like and dislike (Journal photo by Sandor Bodo); below: this museum addition, says the manifesto, is the sole form of valid architectural response to environment; second below: Meet the Jetsons *......
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9:32 AM Wed, Aug 04, 2010 | Permalink |
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Above: Royal Ontario Museum, in Toronto, before addition. Below: After addition. The first photo depicts the old entrance pavilion. As best I can figure it, the new wing, dubbed "The Crystal," sits behind and is devouring the old wing......
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