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"Hello, my name is John. I'm a recovering architect."

I like all sorts of towns, cities and buildings, but what I design are Classical buildings and Traditional towns and cities. You can see some of them at www.massengale.com.

With Robert A.M. Stern I wrote a history of architecture and urbanism in the Progressive Era, New York 1900, Metropolitan Architecture and Urbanism 1890–1915 (Rizzoli, 1983) as well as an introduction to the history of suburbia before sprawl, The Anglo–American Suburb (St. Martin's Press, 1981). With Victor Dover, I am writing Street Design, The Art & Practice of Making Complete Streets (J. Wiley & Sons, 2013).

I'm a Board Member of the Congress for New Urbanism, the former Chair of CNU New York and a former Director of the Institute of Classical Art & Architecture and Federated Conservationists of Westchester County.

A co-founder of the New Urban and Traditional Architecture Councils.I was also a co-founder of the pro-urb list, a forum on the internet for an advanced discussion of New Urbanism. And in this blog you will find some postings from that list, along with other writings and clippings on architecture, urbanism, Classicism, Tradition, metaphysics and culture.


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Saturday, April 10, 2004

Traditional Architecture & Urbanism

The essence of traditional architecture and urbanism is the making of useful, durable and beautiful buildings, streets, squares, neighborhoods, towns and cities.

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Cruising the internet, looking for an image of the Krier house in Seaside FL (referenced by an architect--is there such a house?), I came across this interesting blog (Hi, John!). Does anyoknow where I could find a photo of this house, or any house by Krier?

Posted by: rebecca evarts at May 24, 2005 11:58:07 AM

Classical, traditional architecture has been impressing people for the last four Millennia. It stood the passage of time very well.
All species need food and shelter to thrive. Humans channeled the need for shelter into architecture – the art form.
A great architect once said to a group of his students “Architecture is the art, which everybody sees. Regardless of how beautiful or ugly the building is it will stay in-place for a long time. Beware of what you design!”
Very rarely ugly can turn into beautiful – the Eiffel Tower.
Ageless, classic design confirmed by the centuries past always has had and will have influence on generations of architects.
In my search for decorative, practical and functional artworks (gates, furniture, lamps, etc) I came across a great WEB site www.mansionmasters.com. They custom make all wrought iron, bronze and glass architectural artwork. It is truly the highest-end, hand made artwork. Worth visiting.
Baybus

Posted by: baybus at Feb 8, 2007 6:59:08 PM

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