Posts Tagged ‘modernism’
The joy of hating modernism – David Brussat
by David Brussat, Architecture Here and There, contributing writer on architecture Photo: New national library proposed by the late Jan Kaplicky for Prague My favorite writer of all time is William Hazlitt, the British essayist of the early 19th century and contemporary of Charles Lamb and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He was considered a “good hater”…
Read MoreMaking 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 MoreHistory wins one on the East Side – David Brussat
by David Brussat, Architecture Here and There, contributing writer on architecture For a year or more the vultures circled over an old cottage between Williams and John streets just off of historic Benefit Street. A developer’s plan to add an ultra-modernist addition to a historic cottage at 59 Williams, and then to plop a pair…
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