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Huger Elliott on Providence

Huger Elliott on Providence

Illustration from 1910 for design competition of Cove Basin near new State House. (AIAri) Architect Eric Daum recently passed along an illustration, above, done in 1910 by RISD president Huger Elliott. It expressed how the area of Providence between the new State House and downtown might look in 1950 if it were designed in a classical style. Architect Robert Orr then sent a 1915 article (scroll…

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Building in major & minor keys

Building in major & minor keys

Campus of The American School in Switzerland (TASIS) near Lugano. (Screenshot from video)

David Mayernik, who teaches at Notre Dame’s school of architecture and has designed the campus at The American School in Switzerland, overlooking Lake recently presented his opinions on the language of architecture and definitions of the classical and traditional to a symposium on humanism at the Universidad…

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Edges, patterns and shapes, oh my!

Edges, patterns and shapes, oh my!

The faces of buildings. (Ryan Dodgson)

Edges, patterns and shapes influence our perception of the built environment through the millennia worth of knowledge accumulated by our brain about our world. More than 70,000 years from the savannah and “your subconscious brain’s already telling you not to go there.”

Female building. (Garry Dodgson)

Ann Sussman. (Photo by David Brussat)

Boston City Hall.…

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ICAA Northshore splash

Northshore, the stylish monthly of the shore north of Boston, has a spread in its October issue on the New England chapter of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art. It’s an interesting think piece by Jeff Harder, with illustrations seemingly focused on the desk and office of the chapter’s former president and current treasurer, Eric Daum. There are also stories in the issue about John…

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