Contributed by Anthony O. James Buffalo, NY Figure 1: SmartDwelling I, Stephen Mouzon, 2009 Contemporary Traditional Architecture ...| tradarchlistserv.blogspot.com
While this falls under the category of a book review what we really have here, as the title suggests, is a collection of curated excerpts from manifestos, essays, letters, and the like from the who's who of the Modernist architectural avant-garde. It begins with an out of context figure associated with Art Nouveau, Henry vad de Velde, but quickly moves on to the grandfather of architectural Modernism, Adolf Loos with an excerpt from his essay Ornament and Crime. From there it briskly moves on...| TradArch
Image courtesy of Raphaelle Deslandes| TradArch
This brief post considers the statue Medusa With the Head of Perseus by Luciano Garbati. The statue inverts the death of the gorgon Medusa by the hands of Perseus. It is in fact not a new piece, an original having been made in 2008. Since its initial public release in 2018 there has been a great deal of criticism leveled against the artist that| TradArch
The Classical as criminal, taboo| TradArch
Part 5 in the series, Can Beauty Kill Germs? Trauma, Gratitude, and Memorialization; Attitude and Beauty in the Face of Extreme Odds. | TradArch
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Part 4 in the series, Can Beauty Kill Germs? Well-being, Immunology, and Traditional Building Materials.| TradArch
Part 3 in the series, Can Beauty Kill Germs? Can town and country design and architectural style have an impact on public health?| TradArch
Part 2 in the series: Can Beauty Kill Germs? Traditional Urbanism Helps Make Communities Resilient.| TradArch
Barbastella Bats| TradArch
"Big lies have little lies upon their backs to bite 'em, And little lies have lesser lies, and so, ad infinitum." - Pseudosiphonaptera | TradArch
Photo credit - View of Paris from the Institut du Monde Arabe, Jan Wyers| TradArch
First published March 4th, 2020 on Architecture Here & There| TradArch
This is a visual survey organised chronologically and by state of all of the Federal buildings under the purview of the General Services Administration in the United States. Please note further below the GSA Guiding Principles for Federal Architecture and Federal buildings by the Ad Hoc Committee on Federal Office Space, June 1, 1962.| TradArch
This is a visual survey presented in chronological order by date of construction completion of all of the Federal buildings under the purview of the General Services Administration in Washington DC. Please follow this link to jump to the GSA Guiding Principles for Federal Architecture and Federal buildings by the Ad Hoc Committee on Federal Office Space, June 1, 1962 and the continued visual survey of Federal buildings constructed in Washington DC after the publication of these guidelines.| TradArch
We, the TradArch community are not inhabiting the same universe as we | TradArch
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture| TradArch
Contributed by Patrick Webb | TradArch
Venus and Adonis| TradArch
Contributed by Michael Rouchell| TradArch
Robert E. Lee Taylor, Lambeth Field (former football field), 1911-13| TradArch
Contributed by Michael Rouchell | TradArch
Contributed by Carroll William Westfall | TradArch
Contributed by Patrick Webb| TradArch
