Wrath Of Gnon

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    6 Jul 2017

    It is time for a thread on traditional urbanism, or town planning 13th century style. I will dispel some myths of modern dis-urbanism.

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  2. 3 hours ago

    Note the material: the classics drew in ink, no or few corrections. Jones' are simple: he deals with competent builders. Labrouste's are exact, knows precisely what he wants and how it is to be done, works with defined plots in a mature townscape. The moderns? Crayons, napkins...

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  3. 3 hours ago

    Now for the classical-traditional architects. Inigo Jones, 1618, study of voussoired windows. Christopher Wren 17th c. study of dome with four lobed-drum. Filippo Juvarra, stage scenery, 1712. Henri Labrouste, 1839, preliminary project for the Bibliothèque Ste-Geneviève, Paris.

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  4. 3 hours ago

    If you can't draw you have no business being an architect. Let's have a look at representative sketches of famous architects. First the moderns. All awful. Gropius' fixated with flows (of assault?), Corbu's is infantile. Hadid's is nonsense. But Diller's is the worst: diabolical.

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  5. 3 hours ago

    Good collection of massive neoclassical architecture here.

    Fantastic few days in Stockholm exploring the city.
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  6. 4 hours ago

    This summer has been hot. So hot that cicadas are forced into torpor in order to survive. There's usually a cacophony of them at this time of the year, but right now I can only hear single one in my garden. Hyalessa maculaticollis, (ミンミンゼミ min-min zemi) in Japan).

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    Aug 11

    Recent tornado in Marshalltown, Iowa, uncovered what used to be a beautiful building. WHY PEOPLE WHY DO YOU COVER THIS STUFF UP!?!

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  8. 14 hours ago

    Which way, Western Man?

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    Apr 10

    Far from what we imagine today, schools were available to many children in medieval England, as long as the family could spare their labour. Apart from monastic schools, there were free standing private grammar schools in many parishes. Here is the medievalist Nicholas Orme:

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  10. 15 hours ago

    Latest book, Medieval Children by the legendary Nicholas Orme, maybe the leading medievalist on children and education. Every page is quotable. First edition from 2001 but the choice of paper is bewildering.

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  11. Aug 10

    It is difficult for a young man in his twenties today to find the land for his own neoclassical house, but at least we can draw, talk, share.

    "In Wren's age (17th Century), the profession of architect as understood today did not exist. It was not unusual for well-educated young men (virtuosi) to take up as a gentlemanly activity, a pursuit accepted as a branch of applied mathematics."
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  12. Aug 10

    Long but good, James Howard Kunstler on the effect of zoning laws, building codes, and the unchallenged reign of the automobile on our cities and suburbs, and a good explanation of NIMBYism. From the book "Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World For the 21st Century."

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  13. Aug 9

    On the decay of plastics, from a museum perspective. You can only imagine how our modern plastic homes will function after a couple of decades (toxic emissions, ineffective insulation, etc.), especially now when so much is built in and impossible to fix.

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  14. Aug 9

    In 2017 The Netherlands was the second biggest exporter of agricultural goods in the world, despite being a rather tiny country. Every single piece of the agricultural tech and know-how they used to achieve this is available to anyone with a smart phone. Not bad.

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  15. Aug 9

    The legendary radio broadcaster and protestant Paul Harvey (1918-2009) had this to say on the Catholic Church in 1966. I suspect many other protestants feel the same, or similarly.

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  16. Aug 9

    Modernist buildings encounter a fundamental existential difficulty: the time taken by the public to become familiar with them generally exceeds their lifespan." — Léon Krier

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  17. Aug 9

    Victorian railway station in Yorkshire to be auctioned off in September. If each one of 's followers pitch in 30 quid...

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  18. Aug 9

    The "world treasury of books" that Krier refers to is of course the infamous National Library in Paris, easily the worst designed library in the history of mankind. Impossible to use, hugely expensive to maintain and so badly designed it accelerates the natural decay of books.

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  19. Aug 9

    Léon Krier quoting Marcello Piacentini (1881-1960) on the absurdity of modern (as well as modernist) architecture.

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    Aug 9

    На все вопросы типа "Чем вам не нравится Джаред Даймонд?" надо просто отвечать этим фото

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  21. Aug 9

    Mrs. Wrath took the youngest Wrathling in for a medical check up yesterday. The doctor told her Wrathling was "perfectly healthy but with a remarkably large head for a child that age." I told my own mother and she said "That is exactly what the doctor said about you at that age."

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