Category: Architecture
The War for the Soul of the City
In an age when glass-and-steel monoliths rise like tombstones over the graves of once-human cities, the classical idiom has come…
I’m Not Mad The Fed Renovation Costs Billions, I’m Mad That It’s Ugly
If we’re going to build palaces for our bureaucrats, can they at least be pretty?
James Stevens Curl: A Champion for Beauty, Tradition, and Heritage in Architecture
Some of the finest works of architectural criticism in recent memory have been written in response to the existential cultural…
A Dome for Man
I have just finished re-reading Irving Stone’s historical novel, The Agony and the Ecstasy, on the life and times of…
The White House East Wing Renovations: Exorcizing the Daemons of Modernism
In the elder days of Art, Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part; For the Gods see…
