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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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Wednesday, December 14, 2011

It only gets worse: Future BMWs

From Vanity Fair. I really would like to know who thinks these look good. And what other things they find good looking.

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December 14, 2011 in Classicism, Culture, Current Affairs | Permalink

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disregarding its functions, it is beautifully designed :) i'd love to have it in the future in my garage...

Posted by: michal_krzebietke at Dec 27, 2011 6:23:55 AM

The card that avant garde design has up its sleeve is that the eye is automatically drawn to something unprecedented, regardless of whether or not it is really beautifully or elegantly designed. This strength is also their greatest aesthetic weakness, because once their product has been around for a while, the eye looses interest (unless, of course, the product is incredibly rare and exclusive).

Posted by: Sam Lima at Jan 3, 2012 10:45:53 AM

What other car designs do you like, Michael?

Posted by: johnmassengale at Jan 3, 2012 12:01:54 PM

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