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President Trump set out an Executive Order that calls for a Commission to suggest guidelines for restoring the beauty of traditional classicism in new federal buildings. A nonpartisan issue, President Biden should execute it immediately.
The remodeling market now exceeds $400 B. Home prices are up too, a projected 5.7% increase this year.
The APT Building Technology Heritage Library has a visual cornucopia of documents that tell the story or architectural ornament.
The role of traditional democratic government in our national life was emphasized in the recent presidential election. A poll of preferences in architecture produced a similar embrace of tradition.
Metals role in architecture changed dramatically with the industrial revolution. Structural elements in cast iron pioneered the path to steel construction, high-rises and metal fabrications for ornament, enclosure and building systems.
The art of building that requires commodity, firmness, and delight provides the basis for the art of architecture, which requires beauty as a contribution to the common good.
The famous trilogy of commodity, firmness, and delight provides conditions we expect a building to satisfy. But are they enough?
Built in 1656, the Mayhew-Hancock House on Martha’s Vineyard is a one room structure 15x14 feet with a dirt floor, a thatched roof and walls of waddle and daub.
There is nothing like Bastille Day to conjure up images of political unrest by crowds. But it is 2020 in the United States, and we don’t need to look back to Europe for such imagery; it is with us today.
The statues of Confederates that are targets of revised judgments about their subjects often occupy important places in our urbanism, which calls attention to the importance of urbanism in what we build.
Magazine subscriptions, newsstand sales, website traffic, online education attendance, e-cast open rates, social media engagement are all up as much as 100% year-over-year.
The Building Technology Heritage Library is a free, online research library of pre-1964 architectural trade catalogs, house plan books, and builder’s technical guides.
With no place to go but home, I've attended to several projects around the house and yard, which I'd not gotten around to. These projects include: reading back issues of our Home Group magazines; sorting through the junk mail; planting new trees and shrubs in my garden; power washing the back porch and cleaning out the attic.
Three memorable and familiar cities use their buildings and urbanism in ways that reveal their very different purposes, sacred, secular, and horrifically vile.
A philosophically informed consideration of the craftsman's progression from apprenticeship to mastery.
“Maintenance is Preservation.” Hugh Miller, FAIA
Opinion On Executive Order for the Classical Style in Federal Buildings
The most important buildings are built of masonry, stone if available, or brick often stuccoed to look like stone. Either way classical components suit the material best.
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