Posts Tagged ‘classicism’
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 MoreAmerica’s Crisis of Classicism – David Brussat
by David Brussat, Architecture Here and There, contributing writer Photo, top: View toward Mall from Constitution Avenue, in Washington, D.C. (twenty20.com) Below is a long guest post written by Scottish architecture critic David Black, who lives in Edinburgh. Written in light of controversies in the United States over former President Trump’s effort to align the…
Read MoreLearn more about classicism – David Brussat
by David Brussat, Architecture Here and There, contributing writer Photo: Androssan mansion, by Horace Trumbauer, inspired “The Philadelphia Story” (HouseHisTree) Alexis de Tocqueville discovered, during his visit to our country in the early 1830s, that we Americans form more associations to pursue civic goals than in Britain or, I suppose, in France, his native land,…
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…
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