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To the 17th century the classical world was the locus of ideal beauty, but how did a Frenchman enter it? A writer could read Vergil without leaving Paris, but a painter had to go to Rome. There, ancient sculpture and architecture abounded; from them, antiquity could be reimagined. It was...
Picture Boston in your mind. Maybe you've looked at a map and have a fuzzy sense of a thumb-shaped downtown, filled with whorls of streets and alleys, all surrounded by a sprawling blend of semi-cities and crawling, industrialized rivers. If there are some places on that map...
For the first several decades of its existence, Union Station was a wonder, a glowing masterwork of civic architecture that the authorities maintained and everybody used. Its redemption today is salutary not just as an example of impeccable restoration but also as a reminder that in this age of retrenchment...
The kiosk's architect, Robert Venturi, who heads the presitigious Philadelphia firm of Venturi, Rauch, and Scott Brown, said he was disappointed by unfavorable student reaction to the kiosk. The structure "should not be criticized the way it is," he said. "The students should note that architecture as opposed to...
The question is Why are public rest rooms so bad? And today's case study is Washington, home of the best and the worst in public facilities. (The museums along the Mall contain what may be the world's densest concentration of well- kept public rest rooms. And then there...