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It is not enough to be pro-beautiful architecture - we must also be actively anti-ugly architecture.
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Illegal in Charleston / Subsidized in Charleston
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New townhouse we designed in Charleston:
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New townhouse in Charleston, our design.
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Our design for a Charleston-style city block compared to a Texas donut of the same size. 260' x 300' - 1.8 acres.
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Which of these buildings is a School of Architecture and which is a Prison?
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Another benefit of fine grained urbanism vs. block-sized mega buildings: If there is a viral pandemic, in the smaller scale fewer people share entrances, while mega-buildings have HUNDREDS of people sharing the same entrance and the same hallways.
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Illegal to build / Subsidized
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Three centuries of celebrated, in-demand architecture & unique compact urbanism / What's being built now
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Clients asked us to improve this open plan house a little so they could sell it. We added a few walls and created some rooms with some classic detailing. After we were done, they decided to keep it for themselves.
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Design for a new apartment building in Sweden, architect Nils Freckeus.
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“In those days when we built a house it would be a $10,000 house, which now would be a $200,000 house, and I had two sheets of paper...and one was a little plot plan and one elevation, or maybe one or two principal elevations of the house. We went out to get the building permit..
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Just built in Spain / Soon to be built in Charleston
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More hope for the future - new building in Budapest:
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United States Department of Health and Human Services
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I know who needs to hear this, but Art Deco is not a Modernist style. It is modern (of course), but it is not Modernist, not in the slightest.
Modernism by definition rejects traditions. Art Deco embraces them.
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Stone sills in Holland designed to last for centuries, with drip groove and inward stooling at the wings so water doesn't wear away at the joints.
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Two new houses in Charleston, our design.
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New building in Gdansk. Designed as four facades, independent yet harmonious.
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After the plague, I hope that
@nntaleb
will do to charlatanism in academic architecture what he has done to IQ, psychology, social sciences, etc. It would be a joy to watch it unfold here on Twitter. This glorious exchange is from 2018:
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New traditional architecture in Gdansk.
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Modernism is the single most colonizing architecture in the history of mankind. It has invaded every far corner of the Earth. Yet there are no calls to "decolonize" architecture or the 134 out of 135 architecture schools in the US that promote global Modernist colonization.
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What professional architectural critics aren't allowed to say.
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Our design for a new entrance to a Charleston single-house.
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Message from an architecture student in Uruguay.
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Life in prison isn't so bad, you just have a bad attitude.
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Our designs for some new wrought-iron bicycle racks.
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"..I came in with my drawing...and there were only two pages to look over. He (the inspector) looked it over, and he said, 'This looks pretty good. Do you know how to build it?' I said, 'I can build it.' And he said, 'OK.' And stamp, stamp, and it was all done." - Cliff May
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Image used by the Charleston Tech Center to attract tenants to Charleston / the new Charleston Tech Center
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If something can be made to be beautiful, shouldn't it be?
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Master plasterer Patrick Webb running the cornice in situ in "Roman cement" on a house we designed in Charleston.
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This is a brand new mixed-use building in a village in Hungary.
If you were to propose a building like this as an architecture student, you would be laughed at and/or threatened with failure.
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New house in Charleston, our design.
We were made to submit to the Board of Architectural Review six times before it was begrudgingly approved and our client allowed to build it.
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You can always tell when an architect™ designed a house.
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One of our new townhouses in Catfiddle Street, Charleston, South Carolina.
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Waterfront elevation of our counterproposal to the South Carolina Aquarium in Charleston.
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Headquarters of the Union of Romanian Architects:
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Close-up of one of our projects in Charleston.
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We designed this new house in Charleston. 11 neighbors supported it, including the neighborhood association which supported it unanimously "with praises." Everybody asked that it "fit in" with the neighborhood. The only opposition came from the Preservation Society of Charleston.
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City Hall, University City, Missouri
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Hopefully this Chevron decision will mean one day we can use winders and traditional single-glazed true divided lite windows again.
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Construction on the new townhouse in Charleston that I designed is winding down:
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Current project, modern drafting tools.
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The Swedish city of Alingsås just passed a new ordinance explicitly calling for "more classical architecture anchored in Alingsås's distinctive character."
Fruit of the Architecture Uprising movement. People are tired of ugly buildings.
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A porch of one of our new houses in Charleston.
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New interior in an 1830s carriage house in Charleston. Oiled cypress panelling. Our design.
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As polyurethane is worn out, it becomes aerosolized microplastic indoor air pollution.
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We designed these two new houses in Charleston. The city staff spoke against them; professional preservationists spoke against them; Modernist architects on the Board of Architectural Review spoke against them. Witold Rybczynski wrote about them in his book, Charleston Fancy.
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City of Charleston's Plan for a new neighborhood in the Historic District (Texas donuts) / Our counterproposal (Charleston-style urbanism and architecture)
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Our design for a new school in Charleston.
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Heating and Power Plant, Dresden, 1901.
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Proposed new school building for the center of Charleston's Historic District: supported by the city architect; championed by professional preservationists; vehemently opposed by the citizens, who filed a lawsuit to stop it and won.
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Make a list of the top 500 - no, the top 1000 - buildings ever built. You'll find that not only were they built before computers, they were built before ELECTRICITY.
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Our design for a new mixed-use building in Charleston.
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Spoil a whole city block, win an architecture prize.
The LEARNING category has two winners:
Cambridge House,
@BirkbeckUoL
Ibstock Place School
Congratulations!
#NLAwards21
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Painter and Charlestonian Charles Fraser painted this unidentified barn sometime around the year 1800. We were asked to design a new one based on it.
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Chicago Federal Building, born 1905, demolished in 1965 and replaced with the Kluczynski Federal Building, born 1974.
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Our design for a mixed-use building near Charleston.
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It really is this simple. And the masters degrees in urban planning are designed to prevent this, not encourage it.
How to build human scaled
#GoodUrbanism
:
1) Build to the edge of the plot.
2) Ban motor vehicles.
3) 3 floor limit.
4) Plots to owner builders only, no developers allowed.
5) Courtyards not park.
6) Profane bldgs. in the vernacular, sacred and public buildings in the classical.
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"In a survey of students rating buildings, almost everyone had similar tastes. Uniquely the architecture students rated everyone else’s favorite as their least favorite and vice versa. The longer someone had been studying architecture the more contrarian their tastes." -
@edwest
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What happens when people want a classical building but hire architects who are not classically trained and who would rather be designing Modernist buildings.
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The New College of Charleston Library / Our Counterproposal
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How lucky is it for Parisians that their Bourse de Commerce has been subtly and artfully updated by a famous Pritzker Prize-winning architect?
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Computers have not improved architecture one iota - neither design, nor construction, nor maintenance.
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We designed this addition to a listed house built in the 1740s. To get the owner preservation tax credits, it had to be approved by the State Historic Preservation Officer, and it was. The only opposition was from the Preservation Society of Charleston.
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Will the trees offset enough carbon to justify the energy it takes to keep them in this location?
First Vertical Forest In Asia With 3,000 Plants Will Turn CO2 Into 132 Pounds Of Oxygen Per Day
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WHEN ARCHITECTURAL JOURNALISM RESEMBLES SATIRE MERELY BY QUOTING THE ARCHITECTS:
"The building itself was inspired by an iceberg."
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Charleston's City Architect, planning staff, and professional preservationists fought this project every step of the way.
Catfiddle Alley, one of the 5 (?) or 10 (?) best developments in the last decade.
A flawlessly intimate enclosure of a community, with a tremendous marriage of design, colors, scale, materiality, greenery, single family homes and apartments. I could go on and on!
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Arsonists and vandals are coming to destroy your city. You have to pick a neighborhood to protect.
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Clients commissioned us to design a new barn based on one painted by Charles Fraser circa 1799.
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R.I.P Clothworkers' Hall, London, born 1958.
Sad to see this 50's gem demolished. Clothworkers' Hall, London (1958-2023)
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Our design for a mixed-use building in Charleston with shops on the ground floor and apartments on the upper floors.
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New townhouse in Charleston and a few of our construction drawings.
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The end grain of wood wicks water much faster than other faces. That's why boards used for exterior sheathing are normally installed horizontally.
Traditional architectural detailing isn't arbitrary. It represents centuries of tried-and-true knowledge.
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Materials used in three typical houses: 15th-century, 18th-century, and contemporary.
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We were hired to make this room more architecturally interesting. It started life as a plain sheetrock box. New mantel, new panelling, new trim, new coffered ceiling, new arched opening with French doors on the second floor.
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Design for a new hotel in Sweden, architect Nils Freckeus.
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Charleston single-house on Montagu Street, pencil on vellum, 1/8" = 1' - 0".
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It should be common knowledge by now that architects see their job as destroying during peacetime the remaining classical ensembles that weren't destroyed in wars.
Ruined an existing block of intact turn of the century buildings. In a completely preserved traditional plaza. Liège, Belgium.
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Today we give out Masters degrees in Urbanism, yet despite the huge demand, not one and I mean not a single one has managed to create a place like this. Instead they administer to anti-urban codes and actively fight the creation of places like this, using your taxes to do so.
In the middle of the city you will find a convent, the heart of the city, and the Munsterkirk, which celebrates their 800th anniversary in 2020. Here is Wim Luinge's fantastic reconstruction of how it would have looked in 1775, when the city was formally Austrian.
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Roman concrete buildings are held up by gravity. Brutalist concrete buildings are held up by the steel reinforcement rotting behind a few inches of damp concrete. At much cost it can be slowed but not stopped. We've known this about reinforced concrete for multiple generations.
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Ruined an existing block of intact turn of the century buildings. In a completely preserved traditional plaza. Liège, Belgium.
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*if and only if the architecture is pretty
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The new, 2.3 billion euro Paris Courthouse that recently replaced the ancient Palais de Justice.
#Viedavocate
Megafuite au nouveau palais de Justice de Paris, du 19eme étage au 6eme, cela coule coule coule. Dans le palais historique une telle catastrophe n'est jamais arrivée. C'est bien la peine de faire du neuf !
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Edmondston-Alston House, Charleston, built circa 1825.
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"Excuse me, sisters, but you are in violation of multiple building codes, including material codes, energy codes, site requirements... I'm afraid I'm going to have to call for an immediate Stop Work order."
"We decided as the cost of building was so extravagant, we must do it ourselves." Nuns, getting the job done
#OTD
in 1954.
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Detail elevation and wall section of a new house we designed for a site in the Lowcountry. Starting construction soon...
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Advocating for beautiful architecture for all is now considered right-wing extremism.
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