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...vision of the city as an abstract work of art and of houses as "machines to live in" is widely ridiculed and rejected today. Shivers went through Aspen's packed music tent last week (and not only because of the 30° F weather) when Peter Blake, chairman of the department of architecture and planning at Catholic University of America, showed slides of the future as envisioned in the past. The "ideal cities" of Leonardo da Vinci or Etienne-Louis Boullée, although devoid of people, were at least images of fantastic beauty. The modern future, as imagined...
Some of the 1,200 architects, film makers and graphic and industrial designers who assembled at Aspen are leaders in an emerging, spontaneous coalition of preservationists, ecologists and artisans who are making our cities more livable and human. Peter Blake, for example, wrote a much noted polemic against the modernist vision. Benjamin Thompson is the architect of Faneuil Hall and other festival markets. Israeli-born Canadian Architect Moshe Safdie is a pioneer in the search for a new architecture of humanism. "Out here in this wonderful countryside," Safdie said last week, "I don't feel that I want...
...mind in his 1841 essay on "Friendship." Still, in all seven cases, Michaelis aptly demonstrates what the transcendentalist meant when he said that men are bound "by every sort of tie, by blood, by pride, by fear, by hope . . . by every circumstance and badge and trifle." By Patricia Blake...
...great 19th century French epicure whose classic The Physiology of Taste Fisher lovingly translated in 1949. "Gastronomy rules all life," he wrote. "The newborn baby's tears demand the nurse's breast, and the dying man receives, with some pleasure, the last cooling drink." -By Patricia Blake...
...forced into exile. "I did it out of moral conviction and a simple sense of professional duty," she says. "Basically, I attempted to act as if I were a free person in a free country." In the Soviet Union, that attempt is itself a formidable achievement. -By Patricia Blake...