Posts Tagged ‘buildings’
Making Dystopia: Architecture deliberately set out to disturb – David Brussat
by David Brussat, Architecture Here and There, contributing writer Photo: Out of Balance: From the jacket art for Making Dystopia. (Drawn by J.S. Curl after A.W.N. Pugin) Three years have passed since British architectural historian James Stevens Curl’s masterful Making Dystopia was published by Oxford University Press. Subtitled “The Strange Rise and Survival of Architectural…
Read MoreA yearning for beauty is finally breaking through
Animal Spirits of the E.O. By David Brussat, Architecture Here and There The General Services Administration, which designs, builds and maintains all federal buildings, has issued a pair of RFQs (Request for Qualifications) for architects to design two federal courthouses, one in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., and another in Huntsville, Ala., in a “classical style.” Does…
Read MoreTOP STORY of the Week: The Future of Providence: Trashing the city’s heritage
(Yesterday’s story topped all in readership for the week – so we will print it here, again…agree or not, we can agree that the city of Providence is changing – for the better, or not.) By David Brussat, Architecture Here and There That’s a good word for the bad future of Providence if the erosion…
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