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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.

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Thursday, December 29, 2011

Watch George Smiley Stare Blankly While Saying Nothing, Over And Over And Over

THAT COULD BE THE TITLE OF Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Remake

December 29, 2011 in Film | Permalink

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So true.

Could also say 'watch many men in period rooms make cryptic remarks over and over'...
Soo...after ten hours of film (felt like)...who was the mole, who was 'control', who was Colin Firth (intermittently good) and who cared?
Did it matter?
How did that film get made? 'Well, I want to make a film in which tired looking men walk around and make cryptic remarks in London'...
cheers, DIANE
www.thestylesaloniste.com

Posted by: DIANE at Jan 3, 2012 12:55:55 AM

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