tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6261993076995357307.post6908575004376263805..comments2023-11-05T06:16:56.961-05:00Comments on the Carpentry Way: Book Review: Get Your House RightAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14328401081765407624noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6261993076995357307.post-12527663409649302022011-11-14T08:35:23.684-05:002011-11-14T08:35:23.684-05:00Hi Don,
thanks for your comment.Interestingly, on...Hi Don,<br /><br />thanks for your comment.Interestingly, one of the criticisms leveled at Prince Charles, in response to his call for a return to traditional architectural values, is that:<br /><br /> "This appetite for neoclassical architecture among the upper classes is not entirely surprising, harking back as it does to a time when kings were on their thrones and the rest of us were subservient. With its order and rules, classical architecture is social hierarchy made manifest in built form."<br /><br />Indeed, this sort of argument was a central tenet among those who found the Bauhaus and other atelier out of the shambles of World War. See the following piece for more commentary from a modernist architect's point of view:<br /><br />http://www.newstatesman.com/life-and-society/2009/07/prince-architects-architecture<br /><br />~ChrisAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14328401081765407624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6261993076995357307.post-64534610258872256542011-11-14T08:11:00.982-05:002011-11-14T08:11:00.982-05:00Hello Chris,
My wife, who is not American, someti...Hello Chris,<br /><br />My wife, who is not American, sometimes says how ugly American domestic bourgeois architecture seems to her. Curiously, I don't think the counterparts that exist here are much of an improvement while they do conform more to the measure you seem to imply in that the Greeks and Romans - outside of threatening economic catastrophe - don't figure in much, at least explicitly.<br /><br />Greetings,<br /><br />Don WagstaffAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6261993076995357307.post-60428674124588143642011-11-13T21:59:00.627-05:002011-11-13T21:59:00.627-05:00Tico,
your comment is most appreciated, and I thi...Tico,<br /><br />your comment is most appreciated, and I think that you're right that the book reviewed succeeds in clarifying the meaning of the parts employed in traditional Greek architecture, at least as pertained to temples and other formal structures. I thought it was a good addition to my library and would recommend it to many others.<br /><br />~ChrisAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14328401081765407624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6261993076995357307.post-79882903423624882412011-11-13T21:35:22.749-05:002011-11-13T21:35:22.749-05:00Great post, Chris. You touch on many of the questi...Great post, Chris. You touch on many of the questions I, myself, have pondered but never articulated.<br /><br />For me, the comparison of the wood versus the stone orders would justify the purchase of the book.<br /><br />As a furniture maker I have intuitively sensed that we’ve lost the mythological connections to the design features of things like claw feet and parts of animal symbols used to embellish the classic pieces. There exists such a chasm between why the built world looks like it does and the history of its parts. Without having an understanding of the meaning behind these curious parts, why repeat them?<br /><br />Perhaps this book does a decent job of elucidating the parts that relate to our cherished, but poorly understood, traditional architecture. That would be a worthy accomplishment.Tico Vogthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15743565097341810389noreply@blogger.com