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Andres Duany at TAG 4.2

Architecture Here and There

Members of the TradArch list gather in Charleston for the first TAG. 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, I imagine most attendees at TAG 4.2 photo by author). This is called discourse.

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The Unexpected Satisfaction of Leaving Behind the American Dream

Dwell

Everything about it was inviting except for the price tags. Purchasing or renting a standalone in any highly rated public-school district was more than we wanted to pay, and a higher mortgage would mean more work, more stress, and less free time, putting us right back where we started.

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I love you Building - Happy Valentine's Day | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

On the inside there the interior column details and Renaissance style colonnades serving as the perimeter circulation. For me, I think I am torn between the British Art Muesum at Yale by Louis Kahn or the Rare Book Library by SOM again at Yale. So simple yet so complex.