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Category Archives: Local Inspiration
Urban Renewal Through Public Art?
Yesterday’s post on the extraordinary rice paddy art of the Japanese village of Inakadate got me thinking about the power and purpose of art, public art in particular. Japan’s well-documented generational flight from the country to the city has gutted many rural communities that will likely become ghost towns once their predominantly elderly inhabitants pass on, and forgotten completely once their buildings rot. Yet here is Inakadate, drawing 150,000+ visitors annually to a village of fewer than 9000 residents 400 miles from Tokyo to stare out a tower window at rice paddies. Such is the power of art.
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Posted in architecture, art, Culture, Josh Grigsby, Local Inspiration, Placemaking, Uncategorized, What if?
Tagged architecture, artistic intervention, Banksy, chalk art, civic graffiti, community, displacement, folk architecture, horticulture, inakadate, inclusiveness, Jane Jacobs, Jordan Downs, murals, Orgosolo murals, public art, rice paddy art, sculpture, signage, urban renewal, Watts
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Interview: Traditional Home Builder Devin P. Rutkowski
The retention of vernacular architectural practices maintains a place’s connection to its past. It also informs the direction it charts into the future. I’m currently living in a small town in Florida—Sarasota—that has had its share of troubles during a growth process that has seen disparate vernacular styles such as Florida Cracker and the Sarasota School emerge, prosper, decline, and slowly reemerge. A new crop of craftsmen/builders are reviving traditional design, including Devin P. Rutkowski, founder and president of Bungalow Builders, LLC.
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Posted in architecture, Culture, History, Interview, Josh Grigsby, Local Inspiration, Placemaking, Sarasota, urban design, urban planning, vernacular architecture, What if?
Tagged Arts & Crafts, bungalow builders, Craftsman, Devin Rutkowski, durable design, Florida Cracker, green building, historic homes, mass production, mixed-use, New Urbanism, pedestrianism, planologie interview, Sarasota bungalows, Sarasota School, suburban design, sustainable building, TND, traditional homes, Traditional Neighborhood Design, vernacular architecture
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Shapes of Everyday Life
Vernacular architecture is traditional architecture. It gives a visible face and functional core to local patterns, ethnic and regional character. In our efforts to read this character through the everyday buildings around us, we look for recurring meaningful patterns. Traditions in vernacular architecture may last for generations, but they do change over time as social, economic and technological conditions change. To follow these changeable patterns, researchers have sorted vernacular buildings into sets of types, based on form, which demonstrate their evolution across time and space.
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Posted in Culture, History, Local Inspiration, Neighbors, vernacular architecture
Tagged architectural style, architectural type, Boonslick, Bootheel, Colonial Revival, cultural identity, Georgian, Gothic, Greek Revival, Howard Wight Marshall, international commerce, Little Dixie, Main Street, Mission Revival, Missouri, Missouri Folklore Society, regional character, Rhineland, symbolism, traditional architecture, vernacular architecture, Williamsburg
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Site Analysis: Hawkins Court, Sarasota, Florida
Hawkins Court calls to mind Dutch woonerven, which allow autos to travel at foot speed through pedestrian space, as well as the (also Dutch) principle of “shared space,” in which all road users are given equal status and lines, signs, and signals are removed, is more applicable. Despite being only three blocks from Main Street, Hawkins Court manages to conjure something of the idyllic neighborhood vibe associated with the early days of suburbia and Small Town, USA.
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Posted in Culture, human scale, Josh Grigsby, Livability, Local Inspiration, Neighbors, Placemaking, Sarasota, Site Analysis, Uncategorized, walkable, What if?
Tagged Burns Square, Cady's Alley, Dutch, Florida, Hawkins Court, Julia Place, Laurel Park, Main Street, neighborhood, orthogonal grid, Osprey Avenue, Payne Park, quality of place, right of way, Sarasota, Seaside, shared space, Small Town USA, street edge, Towles Court Artist Colony, woonerf, woonerven, Ybor City
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