http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/ en Copyright 2009 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:25:19 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=4.23-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss I received an e-mail, called "Heresy," from Jerry Kler about my last column, "Appeal to the Vatican for artistic sanity." Because the e-mail struck me as an unusually typical representative of the genre of objection to my unapologetic and unforgiving... http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2009/11/to-this-typical.html http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2009/11/to-this-typical.html Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:25:19 -0500 A slide show of the ten ugliest buildings in the world, according to the editors of Travel magazine, is here. Not sure these are in any particular order, but my choice for ugliest is the one I chose to... http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2009/11/travel-magazine.html http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2009/11/travel-magazine.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:38:49 -0500 Illustrations: Above, artists at the Vatican on Saturday; below left, Pope Benedict upholds four pontius - oops, I meant palm - pilots in a photo from January. * * * Almost all of the artists who accepted invitations showed... http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2009/11/pope-benedict-m.html http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2009/11/pope-benedict-m.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:52:22 -0500 This post should be of interest in the Creative Capital. The Rhode Island School of Design is one of the top design schools in the world. But design education is almost wholly modernist and excludes education in other stylistic... http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2009/11/the-apartheid-r.html http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2009/11/the-apartheid-r.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:58:35 -0500 Illustrations: Above, the newly opened Maxxi museum of contemporary art, in Rome; below top, St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City; second, Zaha Hadid; third, Ara Pacis museum, Rome; fourth, Richard Meier inside Ara Pacis museum; fifth, Maxxi from above (model)... http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2009/11/column-appeal-t.html http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2009/11/column-appeal-t.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:16:25 -0500 Increasing concern that modern architecture contributes to the decline of Western civilization brings an increasingly desperate hunt for ways to return art and architecture, at least, to the realm of aesthetic sanity, if not sanctity. Last week I linked... http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2009/11/coming-up-shoul.html http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2009/11/coming-up-shoul.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:45:59 -0500 The photo above shows the Providence Public Library with the originally planned addition, at right, which is not identical to but is related closely to the original 1901 building. The library board should have been prosecuted for grand theft... http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2009/11/grand-theft-bea.html http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2009/11/grand-theft-bea.html Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:44:49 -0500 The photo above shows the sidewalk of Washington Street between Clemence and Mathewson streets not before but after - yes, after! - its recent repair. I repeat, this is the finished product, not a fright shot taken to demonstrate... http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2009/11/your-tax-dollar.html http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2009/11/your-tax-dollar.html Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:25:57 -0500 http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2009/11/column-time-to.html http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2009/11/column-time-to.html Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:28:51 -0500 (Illustrations: Above, at center, just left of the Industrial Trust, is the One Ten Westminster condo project, to make way for which the Providence National Bank building was (mostly) demolished in December 2005; below top, the Westminster Street end... http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2009/11/reprieve-for-th.html http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2009/11/reprieve-for-th.html Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:01:01 -0500 A recent visitor to Rome tells me that efforts are afoot to petition the Pope to issue some sort of encyclical or edict or whatever urging that Catholic institutions such as churches and diocese avoid modern art and architecture.... http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2009/11/is-the-pope-cat.html http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2009/11/is-the-pope-cat.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:45:49 -0500 I have used the above photograph, of the newly opened Providence Career and Technical Academy (or High School), to illustrate "deconstructivist" architecture. It is apparently the only major (or minor for all I know) example of it in the... http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2009/11/coming-up-salin-1.html http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2009/11/coming-up-salin-1.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:26:14 -0500 Hartford is the scene of the latest embarrassment of modern architecture. A story in the Hartford Advocate reports a lawsuit by the Connecticut Science Center, a museum designed by the firm of Cesar Pelli, whose design errors are costing the... http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2009/11/engineers-faili.html http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2009/11/engineers-faili.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:09:56 -0500 The city has received an applicaton from the owners of the site of the mostly razed Providence National Bank to raze the rest of it, which has been held up by a steel scaffold for about three years now.... http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2009/11/make-them-keep.html http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2009/11/make-them-keep.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:17:00 -0500 Illustrations: Above, cathedral at Léon, Spain; above second, canyon; below, first, Nikos Salingaros; second, fingerprint; third, daily * * * Someday, people will realize that they can demand better buildings and cities, and they will do so. Extraordinarily rich... http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2009/11/column-heres-wh.html http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/architecturehereandthere/2009/11/column-heres-wh.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:31:05 -0500