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To this typical complaint, my typical reply . . .

11:25 AM Mon, Nov 23, 2009 | | Write a comment
By David Brussat    Email

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......

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 Tags  architecture   Jerry Kler   modern architecture   Pope Benedict  

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Travel magazine's ten ugliest buildings in the world

fedsquare.jpeg 8:38 PM Sun, Nov 22, 2009 | | Comments (2)
By David Brussat    Email

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......

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 Tags  architecture   Friedrich St. Florian   modern architecture   Renzo Piano   Richard Rogers   Travel  

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Pope Benedict meets with world artists

artistsvatican.jpg 12:52 AM Sun, Nov 22, 2009 | | Write a comment
By David Brussat    Email

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......

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 Tags  Daniel Libeskind   New York Times   Pope Benedict   Rome   Vatican   Zaha Hadid  

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The 'apartheid regime' in design education

janmichl.jpg 5:58 PM Sat, Nov 21, 2009 | | Write a comment
By David Brussat    Email

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......

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 Tags  apartheid   architecture   design   Jan Michl   modernism   Oslo School of Architecture and Design   RISD  

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Column: Appeal to the Vatican for artistic sanity

maxxiroof.jpg 8:16 AM Thu, Nov 19, 2009 | | Write a comment
By David Brussat    Email

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)......

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 Tags  architecture   art   Maxxi   modernism   Nicolai Ouroussoff   Pope Benedict XVI   Rome   Sistine Chapel   Zaha Hadid  

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Coming up: Should the sacred arts be sacred?

sistinechapel.jpg 5:45 AM Tue, Nov 17, 2009 | | Write a comment
By David Brussat    Email

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......

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 Tags  architecture   churches   Ouroussoff   Pope Benedict   Rome   sacred art   Salingaros   Vatican  

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Grand theft beauty

pplgarden.JPG 12:44 AM Mon, Nov 16, 2009 | | Write a comment
By David Brussat    Email

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......

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 Tags  architecture   grand theft   Providence Public Library   Providence RI  

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