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Tag Archives: architecture
Food for Thought: Sebastian Mariscal
A city is about diversity, so shouldn’t its architecture be, too?
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Posted in architecture, Culture, Food for Thought
Tagged 100 Houses we Love, architecture, cities, diversity, Dwell, Food for Thought, Sebastian Mariscal
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Thoughts on Seaside, Sea Change
I’ve heard Seaside, Florida, lauded as the first great project of the New Urbanism. I’ve also heard it ridiculed as new-faux urbanism. So what’s the truth, at least as I see it? Well, during the scant few hours I recently spent there I saw a lot to like. Dozens of wonderful pathways for bikes and pedestrians that connect everywhere to everywhere, many of which feel like something to discover instead of simply travel. Residential roads eschewing sidewalks in favor of shared space. Relatively tall buildings on relatively narrow lots. Architecture with integrity. Loads of trees and shady places (critical given the town’s latitude). Seaside feels like it was designed by people who care.
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The High Cost of Ignoring Beauty
Architecture clearly illustrates the social, environmental, economic, and aesthetic costs of ignoring beauty. We are being torn out of ourselves by the loud gestures of people who want to seize our attention but give nothing in return.
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Posted in architecture, Culture, Placemaking, urban design, urban planning
Tagged aesthetic principles, America, American.com, architecture, Britain, democratic culture, European cities, Main Street, McDonalds, mutual destruction, property rights, Roger Scruton, St. Mark's, The American, Why beauty matters
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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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Food for Thought: David Byrne
Throughout the world the International Style, as the Museum of Modern Art calls it, has been used as an excuse for every bunkerlike structure, atrocious housing project, lifeless office building, and ubiquitous, crumbling third-world concrete housing block and office. Crap the world over has the imprimatur of quality because it apes, albeit badly, a prestigious style…
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