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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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 Tags  Ada Louise Huxtable   Architecture   David Brussat   Modern Architecture   Preservation   The Unreal America  

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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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 Tags  1000 Ultimate Sights   Architecture   David Brussat   Lonely Planet   Tourism   Travel   Wikipedia  

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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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 Tags  1000 Ultimate Sights   Architecture   David Brussat   Lonely Planet   Photography   Tourism  

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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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 Tags  Audun Engh   Edvard Munch   Herreros   INTBAU   Oslo  

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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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 Tags  Architecture   Brick   Brown University   David Brussat   Gary Brewer   Jonathan Nelson Fitness Center   Providence RI   RAMSA  

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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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 Tags  Architecture   Bell Gallery   Brown University   Flying Car   Future   Nathaniel Walker   Peter Elsworth   Providence Journal   Providence RI   Transportation  

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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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 Tags  Algonquin Club   Architecture   Engineering   Exploding the Myths of Modern Architecture   Malcolm Millais   Nikos Salingaros  

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