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Atlantis: Krier's ideal village
Atlantis: Krier’s ideal village
Computer rendering of Atlantis, an ideal village proposed by Leon Krier for the island of Tenerife. In February, the architect and urban theorist Léon Krier, famed for planning Prince Charles’s new town of Poundbury, sent me a video about his proposed academic village on a hillside at the Mediterranean island of Tenerife, owned by Spain. Commissioned in the 1980s by the celebrated gallerists and…
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Historical Concepts' lovable title
Historical Concepts’ lovable title
Eric Piasecki’s photograph on the front cover of “Visions of Home.” (Historical Concepts) Most architectural firms have names listing one or more partners, McKim Mead & White being a chief example familiar to classicists. In recent times some firms have chosen names seemingly designed to impress you with their creativity, such as SHoP Architects, headquartered in the Woolworth Building, of all…
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After Biden nix Trump E.O.
After Biden nix Trump E.O.
Harris poll on American architectural tastes. Humphrey Building (l.); National Archives. (Harris) Architecture is a huge field of human endeavor. Along with the planning of cities and towns, and the arts and crafts that enter into civic beauty, it forms the stage on which the human comedy is performed. For millennia, our dear species has botched most of what it has touched with its failure to…
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Shots of the Bulfinch gala!
Shots of the Bulfinch gala!
The Harvard Club. (Photo above and below by Tara Carvalho of South Shore Photography)
Here is a healthy selection of photos from the New England chapter of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art’s recent Bulfinch Awards gala at the Harvard Club on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston. The event was a rousing success because it was all about beauty – not just that of guests and the sponsors but of…
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Appetite for Andreozzi
If you have an appetite for lovely houses in grand style, visit on Thursday evening a show of work by Barrington architect David Andreozzi. Not only is Dave a fellow board member of the New England chapter of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art, he is a big wheel in the American Institute of Architects’ Custom Residential Architects Network (CRAN). The free event unfolds at AIAri’s…
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