10 posts tagged “architect”

Angela Fritsch Architekten has got some really fabulous designs. Something about the colors and lines of the forms is subtly feminine without being overtly female. I've always like projects with a sharp edge quality... of which I think all three of these apply. While there are many projects with more organic qualities that I like and appreciate, I just really love embracing the man-made qualities of architecture, and I think Angela Fritsch does a great job with that.

"Hello, my name is John. I'm a recovering architect." I like all sorts of towns, cities and buildings, but what I design are Classical buildings and Traditional cities. You can see some of them at Massengale.com. With Robert A.M. Stern I wrote a history of architecture and urbanism in the Progressive Era, New York 1900, Metropolitan Architecture and Urbanism 1890–1915 (Rizzoli, 1983) as well as an introduction to the history of suburbia before sprawl, The Anglo–American Suburb (St. Martin's Press, 1981). I have a grant to write Do The Right Thing: Architecture, Urbanism, Democracy, the Zeitgeist & the Soul. I'm a Director of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America, the Chair of CNU New York a Founding Member of the Congress for the New Urbanism, and a co-founder of the New Urban and Traditional Architecture Councils. I was also a co-founder of the pro-urb list, a forum on the internet for an advanced discussion of New Urbanism. And in this blog you will find some postings from that list, along with other writings and clippings on architecture, urbanism, Classicism, Tradition, metaphysics and culture.

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Well worth a visit to this site. The abandoned facade does not do justice to the jewel of a design on the interior.

Their resume reads like an architect’s fairy tale: two aspiring architects, Dwayne Oyler and Jenny Wu, met at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, graduated, and moved to New York to hone their craft working with prestigious architects and firms—he for Toshiko Mori and Lebbeus Woods, she for Architecture Research Office and Gluckman Mayner Architects. They decided to start their own firm, Oyler Wu Collaborative, get married, and go West. Like most fairy tales, Oyler and Wu had to journey through unknown territory (moving across the country and starting an office with no clients in hand) and experience conflict to get to their current state of a busy practice in Los Angeles with myriad projects completed and on the boards, local and overseas.