http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/ en Copyright 2013 Sat, 15 Oct 2011 19:46:04 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=4.23-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 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... http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2011/10/our-little-town.html http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2011/10/our-little-town.html Sat, 15 Oct 2011 19:46:04 -0500 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... http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2011/10/-this-week-the.html http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2011/10/-this-week-the.html Fri, 14 Oct 2011 23:15:09 -0500 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 * *... http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2011/10/column-rethinki.html http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2011/10/column-rethinki.html Thu, 13 Oct 2011 07:00:00 -0500 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... http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2011/10/coming-up-lates.html http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2011/10/coming-up-lates.html Tue, 11 Oct 2011 20:54:08 -0500 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... http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2011/10/eisenhower-gran.html http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2011/10/eisenhower-gran.html Mon, 10 Oct 2011 19:31:55 -0500 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... http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2011/10/the-architectur.html http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2011/10/the-architectur.html Sun, 09 Oct 2011 20:47:24 -0500 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... http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2011/10/has-ross-doutha.html http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2011/10/has-ross-doutha.html Sun, 09 Oct 2011 07:35:53 -0500 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.... http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2011/10/why-postmoderni.html http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2011/10/why-postmoderni.html Sun, 02 Oct 2011 17:04:03 -0500 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... http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2011/09/blast-from-the-6.html http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2011/09/blast-from-the-6.html Fri, 30 Sep 2011 09:44:28 -0500 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... http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2011/09/column-ultimate.html http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2011/09/column-ultimate.html Thu, 29 Sep 2011 07:00:00 -0500 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... http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2011/09/coming-up-1000.html http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2011/09/coming-up-1000.html Tue, 27 Sep 2011 20:56:34 -0500 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... http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2011/09/wish-it-were-th.html http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2011/09/wish-it-were-th.html Mon, 26 Sep 2011 22:47:15 -0500 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... http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2011/09/more-on-changin.html http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2011/09/more-on-changin.html Sun, 25 Sep 2011 22:05:27 -0500 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... http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2011/09/flying-car-take.html http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2011/09/flying-car-take.html Sun, 25 Sep 2011 17:19:30 -0500 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"... http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2011/09/exploding-moder.html http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2011/09/exploding-moder.html Sun, 25 Sep 2011 13:49:29 -0500