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"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 towns and cities. You can see some of them at www.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). With Victor Dover, I am writing Street Design, The Art & Practice of Making Complete Streets (J. Wiley & Sons, 2013).

I'm a Board Member of the Congress for New Urbanism, the former Chair of CNU New York and a former Director of the Institute of Classical Art & Architecture and Federated Conservationists of Westchester County.

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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Friday, September 25, 2009

Re Lord Foster To Build On Moon

Foster gherkin rocketLord Norman Foster plans to build on the moon - The Guardian

Exclusive image courtesy of Dean Gunderson, Dreiling Terrones Architecture

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Will Lord Foster be conducting the Construction Observation phase personally?

Posted by: Steven Semes at Sep 25, 2009 2:46:52 PM

Hi John, great image, love the TinTin reference!
Mike Mehaffy has a lovely series of images showing the early 20th century references for all these "avant garde" buildings. They're all endlessly recycling dead ideas from the past ;-)
Cheers,
Matthew.

Posted by: Matthew at Sep 25, 2009 4:38:48 PM