Architecture Here and There

Our little town of Occupy Providence (see yourself here?)

7:46 PM Sat, Oct 15, 2011 | Permalink | Comments (4)
By David Brussat    Email

Andres Duany, town planner extraordinaire in the New Urbanist way, was impressed by a site offering some helpful town-planning hints to the growing ranks of Occupiers, or, as they hope to come to think of themselves, Occupants. The site......

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Announcing the winners of the second annual Bulfinch Awards

11:15 PM Fri, Oct 14, 2011 | Permalink | Comments (2)
By David Brussat    Email

This week, the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art announces the winners of the New England chapter's second annual Bulfinch Awards. These five examples of the classical in art and architecture show a refined appreciation of how the principles of......

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Column: Rethinking the Eisenhower memorial

7:00 AM Thu, Oct 13, 2011 | Permalink | Comments (3)
By David Brussat    Email

General Eisenhower in a jeep, in Europe during World War II (From the Internet) * * * Rendering of latest Eisenhower memorial design by Frank Gehry * * * Counterproposal by Rodney Mims Cook and Michael Franck * *......

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 Tags  Architecture   Classical Architecture   David Brussat   Dhiru Thadani   Dwight Eisenhower   Eisenhower Memorial   Eric Wind   Frank Gehry   Modern Architecture   National Civic Art Society   Philip Kennicott   Susan Eisenhower   Washington DC  

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Coming up: Latest twists in Eisenhower memorial saga

8:54 PM Tue, Oct 11, 2011 | Permalink | Comments (1)
By David Brussat    Email

My last column about the Eisenhower memorial design by Frank Gehry concluded with the hope that the Eisenhower family would weigh in on the proposal. They did so last week, in a statement calling for a pause in the......

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 Tags  Dwight D. Eisenhower   Eisenhower Memorial Commission   Eric Wind   Frank Gehry   Justin Shubow   National Civic Art Society   Robert Wilson   Washington  

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Eisenhower granddaughters react to Gehry memorial design

7:31 PM Mon, Oct 10, 2011 | Permalink | Comments (2)
By David Brussat    Email

The photo above was taken of Dwight David Eisenhower (center, with legs spread) when he was 17, and may represent the only image of the great general, president and patriot on the memorial proposed for Washington's National Mall by......

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 Tags  Architecture   Dwight D. Eisenhower   Frank Gehry   Memorials   Modern Architecture   National Civic Art Society   Philip Kennicott   Washington Post  

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The architecture of modernist myopia, and the antidote

8:47 PM Sun, Oct 09, 2011 | Permalink | Write a comment
By David Brussat    Email

This essay by Nikos Salingaros and Michael Mehaffy explains why modern architects might as well not have ears, let alone eyes - eyes they definitely do not have - and what is to be done about it. Click the......

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 Tags  Architecture   Biophilia   Michael Mehaffy   Modern Architecture   Nikos Salingaros  

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Has Ross Douthat ever seen new urbanism?

7:35 AM Sun, Oct 09, 2011 | Permalink | Comments (2)
By David Brussat    Email

In reply to New York Times columnist Ross Douthat's piece "Up From Ugliness" on its Oct. 8 editorial page: Kudos to Ross Douthat for noticing the difference between beauty and ugliness. His remarks about new urbanism suggest, however, that he......

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 Tags  Architecture   David Brussat   Design   New Urbanism   New York Times   Planning   Ross Douthat   Steve Jobs   World War II Memorial  

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A classical conference on postmodernism: Why?

5:04 PM Sun, Oct 02, 2011 | Permalink | Comments (3)
By David Brussat    Email

The Institute of Classical Architecture & Art and the architecture schools at Notre Dame and University of Miami will host a conference Nov. 11-12 on the brief "period" of architecture known as postmodernism. Participants include Tom Wolfe, Robert A.M.......

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 Tags  Andres Duany   Architecture   ICAA   Notre Dame   Philip Johnson Robert A.M. Stern   Postmodernism   Tom Wolfe   University of Miami  

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