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September 25, 2011 - October 1, 2011 Archives


Blast from the past: Ada L. Huxtable's 'unreal America'

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By David Brussat    Email

Christine Franck has asked TradArch listers to respond to Ada Louise Huxtable's recent rant in the Wall Street Journal (where she is architecture critic). Almost a decade ago I wrote this about Huxtable's book "The Unreal America," which had been......

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Column: 'Ultimate sights'? Put up your dukes!

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By David Brussat    Email

The Biltmore, in Coral Gables, Fla., has the nation's largest hotel swimming pool. (Courtesy of the Coral Gables Biltmore) The photos below are also not from 1000 Ultimate Sights. At the end of column text below are five photographs......

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Coming up: 1000 sights or 1,000 sites?

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By David Brussat    Email

Not long ago a publicist for The Lonely Planet group of travel literature wrote wondering whether I'd be interested in printing excerpts from 1000 Ultimate Sights, a new travel book that would be coming out in September. Send it......

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(Wish It Were) The Final Scream

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By David Brussat    Email

Never expected the terrified O to do service as a grace note! But here is a report from Audun Engh, of INTBAU, in Oslo, that will make you smile. The horrible project for a new high-rise Edvard Munch Museum in......

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On changing diapers in the middle of a stream

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By David Brussat    Email

Well, not exactly, but here are a couple new shots of RAMSA's athletic center at Brown, work being overseen by Gary Brewer, who has sent his own shots to TradArch lately, referring to the brickwork as a "diapering" pattern. I......

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Flying car takes off near Brown futurist exhibit

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By David Brussat    Email

It may be purely coincidental, but amidst the run of an exhibit in which flying cars play a major role buzzing around the phallic towers of futurist cities, an actual flying car has just received FAA approval, and the......

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'Exploding Modernism' author speaks in Boston on Wednesday

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By David Brussat    Email

The photograph shows Wednesday night's speaker standing on the grave of founding modernist Le Corbusier. Is Malcolm Millais smiling? Is he about to kick the concrete tomb? He looks harmless enough. But his book "Exploding the Myths of Modern Architecture"......

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