#Heterodoxia Architectonica

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Andres Duany at TAG 4.2

Andres Duany at TAG 4.2

Members of the TradArch list gather in Charleston for the first TAG. (photo by author) The architect and planner Andrés Duany, who was a founder of the Congress of the New Urbanism back in the 1990s, gave the final lecture at the fourth session of TAG 4.2, this year’s gathering of classicists, which has been rebranded by the Classic Planning Institute as the Stoa – an ancient Greek word for…

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Lynch Middle School, Holyoke MA, 1950's Pseudo Classicism

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Lovely house on N.J. coast

Lovely house on N.J. coast

House under construction on N.J. waterfront. (David Rau)

David Rau has sent to TradArch his sketch of a house he has designed along the intercoastal waterway of New Jersey. I am assuming that the grayed-out structures to the left and the rear are the neighbors of the eventual owners of the house. It is under construction now.

Rau writes: “On a related, but wider note, we’re searching for a…

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Henry and 'the Heterodox'

Henry and ‘the Heterodox’

Henry Hope Reed in his younger days. (Courtesy of his nephew, Andrew Reed)

Henry Hope Reed was such a perfectionist that his detractors, and perhaps even some of his friends, called him Henry Hopeless Reed. What he sought was too perfect, too unlikely ever to be built. Hopeless.

Since classical architecture is the most practical of arts, this contradiction gave rise to debate at last Saturday’s…