Weekend 198.0
(1) Rachel Field “Field also wrote the English lyrics for the version of Franz Schubert’s Ave Maria used in the Disney film Fantasia (film).” (1a) Walt Disney’s Ave Maria (2) Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Books
PDP-1
Excerpts from Ready Player One by Ernest Cline: The museum’s bottom level, located in the planet core, was a spherical room containing a shrine to the very first videogame, Tennis Continue Reading →
Weekend 196.0
(1) Bookish Good Looks (WSJ) My favorite look is a collected-over-time weave of hardbacks, sculpture, mementos, art and bookends—the bits and pieces of a curious and full life. And the Continue Reading →
Lilly Belle
Just as he loved to play soda jerk, he loved to play engineer. He would don an engineer’s cap and a plaid shirt, straddle the tender behind the engine, which Continue Reading →
Weekend 194.1
“Perhaps the hard truth was this: New Yorkers had never come to really love Penn Station. Charles Follen McKim, an architect rankled by the very skyscrapers, crowds, and cacophony that Continue Reading →
194X
Planning in this sense is analogous to historical fiction, but unlike the backward-looking literary genre, its clipped narrative creates an anticipatory endpoint. It romances the nostalgic future, a potential urban Continue Reading →
Weekend 193.1
To put this in plain terms, Americans and their institutions have tended to choose the self-interest and individualism of the free market over the nationalized model more prevalent in postwar Continue Reading →
More from Aerotropolis…
…or red courtesy phone for Mr. Friedman. “The aerotropolis and authoritarians go hand in hand. The first is a city built from scratch to chase economies of speed; the second Continue Reading →
Weekend 190.1
Someone once asked Goethe what color he liked best. “I like rainbows,” he said. That’s what I love about architecture: If it’s good, it’s about every color in the spectrum Continue Reading →
Weekend 190.0
Absolutely gorgeous summer day in New England! (1) Bright Colors Struggle to Bloom in South Korea’s Silver-Car Nation (WSJ) (2) Adventure on the Rails (WSJ Magazine) (3) Custom Cycling’s Big Continue Reading →