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Architecture
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Land Use Prof Blog
The past and future in New York …
Before I get to a more serious land use comment, please indulge a little architectural criticism from a complete amateur, just back from New York. As…
PropertyProf Blog
Philip Johnson’s Glass House at New Canaan
By propertyprof
Much talk recently at the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal about the impending opening--tomorrow--of Philip Johnson's Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut. As the New York Times…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigrant of the Day: I. M. Pei
I. M. Pei (Ieoh Ming Pei) (Chinese: 貝聿銘; Pinyin: Bèi Lùmíng; b. April 26, 1917), commonly known by his initials I. M. Pei, is a Pritzker Prize-winning Chinese American architect,…
Land Use Prof Blog
Motel modern — an endangered species of architecture? …
Should governments act to protect the rapidly disappearing "motel modern" style of architecture? Some years ago, a few eyebrows were raised when the 1951 Lever House in Manhattan was…
Land Use Prof Blog
Façade-ectomy?
What’s the purpose of historic preservation? Is it mostly visual, in that old buildings are pleasant to look at? Or is it also cultural, so that we save buildings…
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
Fight Over House in Moscow
In a soap-opera like case, a long fight continues in Moscow over the Constructivist architect Konstantin Melnikov’s house.Here are just a few excerpts from Christopher Mason, In Moscow, a Battle…
ContractsProf Blog
Today in History: October 6
1846: Inventor and entrepreneur George Westinghouse is born at Central Bridge, New York.1887: Architect Charles-Edouard Jeanneret (“Le Corbusier”), the man who will give the world those great sterile concrete “plazas”…