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Tag Archives: Course Correction
Romania at the Biennale 2014: Site Under Construction
Projecting the future from amidst the relics of modernist ruin. Deep inside the Giardini in Castello, Venice, the Romanian Pavilion for the Architecture Biennale sits amidst a long row of undifferentiated pavilion facades, evocative of their design era and the … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Bauwerk, Recapitulation, Reformation, Renaissance, Renaissance Rules, Venice Italy, Zeitgeist
Tagged Architecture, Bauwerk, Course Correction, Meaning, Recapitulation, Reformation, Renaissance, Renaissance Rules, Romanian Modernism, Venice, Zeitgeist
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GRAFTING ARCHITECTURE – CATALONIA AT VENICE – 2014
GRAFTING ARCHITECTURE – CATALONIA AT VENICE A short review of the Catalonia exhibit at the 14th Architecture Biennale, Venice, 2014, by Randy Bosch. The Catalonia region of Spain, very recently near to a non-binding plebiscite regarding independence from Spain, sponsored … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Bauwerk, Reformation, Venice Italy
Tagged Architecture, Bauwerk, Catalonia, Course Correction, Crafting Place, Renaissance, Venice, Venice Biennale
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Architecture Biennale – Venice 2014 – A Few Reflections
BIENNALE ARCHITETTURA 2014 The 14th MOSTRA INTERNAZIONALE DI ARCHITETTURA – VENICE A FEW REFLECTIONS FROM THE ENCOUNTER by Randy Bosch There is simply too much to cover – molto troppo! In future posts, I will share impressions formed in many … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Bauwerk, Planning & Urban Design, Recapitulation, Reformation, Renaissance, Renaissance Rules, Venice Italy, Zeitgeist
Tagged Architecture, Bauwerk, City Planning, Course Correction, Crafting Place, Recapitulation, Reformation, Renaissance, Urban Design, Venice, Zeitgeist
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Venice – Urban Palimpsest and Tomb of Memories
“Palimpsest” (“palinsesto” in Italian) has its origins in the Greek word for “scraped again”. The original reference may have been to layered manuscripts, where older text was no longer more valued by the holder than the underlaying and very rare … Continue reading
Posted in Bauwerk, Discovery, Planning & Urban Design, Recapitulation, Renaissance Rules, Uncategorized, Venice Italy, Zeitgeist
Tagged Alvar Alto, Architecture, Bauwerk, City Planning, Community, Course Correction, Crafting Place, History, Italy, Kevin Lynch, Palimpsest, Recapitulation, Renaissance Rules, Stephen Greenblat, Urban Palimsest, Venice, W. G. Sebald, Zeitgeist
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The Seen and the Unseen
“What is seen is transient, the unseen is eternal.” “They could not see the forest for the trees.” Several different types of “seeing” are evident in the two aphorisms quoted above. The first is speaking to the “unseen” as non-physical objects, ideas or … Continue reading
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Tagged Course Correction, Eternal, Innovation, Meaning, Recapitulation, Reformation, Renaissance, Renaissance Rules, Temporal
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Completing the City – Great Lessons from the Form of Venice
In one of his seminal works, “A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals” (Kostof, Spiro, Oxford University Press, New York, 1985), Spiro Kostof (+) addressed “The City Design at Large” (pp. 472-476). One emphasis was the work of the “Magistry of Waters”, a … Continue reading
Posted in Bauwerk, Planning & Urban Design, Recapitulation, Reformation, Renaissance, Renaissance Rules, San Marco, Venice Italy
Tagged Bauwerk, City Planning, Community, Course Correction, Crafting Place, Great Cities, History, Innovation, Italy, Leadership, Reformation, Renaissance, Renaissance Rules, Spiro Kostof, Suburbs, Urban Design, Venetian Lagoon, Venice
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Tune-Up for Your Problem Solving System
Their Problem Solving System May Be Your Problem Effective problem solving benefits from simple, easily comprehended procedures that are prepared in advance, utilize simple tools, and can be easily applied through-out the process, including follow-through after the solution is found, approved and implemented! Why have a plethora of “methods” … Continue reading
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Tagged Bauwerk, Course Correction, Ethics, Innovation, Lead On, Leadership, Problem Solving, Reformation, Renaissance, Renaissance Rules
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Walled In or Walled Out – A Community Planning Lesson from Venice
Many write about and speak to the glorious open views across the Venetian Lagoon, the extraordinary scenes down every canal and rio, the sunny expanses of campos surrounded by cafes and glorious architecture —The City of Light, The City of … Continue reading
Posted in Bauwerk, Environment, Lead On, Planning & Urban Design, Recapitulation, Reformation, Renaissance, Renaissance Rules, Venice Italy
Tagged Bauwerk, City Planning, Community, Course Correction, Crafting Place, Italy, Lead On, Leadership, Recapitulation, Reformation, Renaissance, Renaissance Rules, Suburbs, Travel, Urban Design, Venice
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Community and Opportunity
Over twenty-five centuries ago, the Greek philosopher Alcaeus accurately observed, “Not house finely roofed or the stones of walls well-builded, nor canals and dockyards, make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.” The “slums and slurbs” to which we … Continue reading
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Tagged Alcaeus, Bauwerk, City Planning, Community, Course Correction, Crafting Place, Lead On, Mark Twain, Recapitulation, Reformation, Renaissance, Renaissance Rules, Suburbs, Urban Design, Yeats, Zeitgeist
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“Carpet Bombing” Again Threatens Cities
…and Suburbs are now also targets of opportunity, sometimes merely for existing despite the self-proclaimed “greater wisdom” of the urban planning gurus. The “Carpet Bombing” I am addressing is a particularly invasive form of “redevelopment” or “urban renewal” or “economic … Continue reading
Posted in Bauwerk, Lead On, Planning & Urban Design, Recapitulation, Reformation, Renaissance, Renaissance Rules
Tagged City Planning, Community, Course Correction, Crafting Place, Lead On, Leadership, Redevelopment, Reformation, Renaissance, Renaissance Rules, Suburbs, The Enlightenment, Urban Design, Urban Open Space, Urban Renewal
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Renaissance Rules 