Something to Love Among the Ruins
September 2, 2010 |15:58 | Classic Architectures By : Team X
This May, the Royal Institute of British Architects mounted a remarkable exhibition, Three Classicists. It would have been unthinkable only a decade ago for several reasons: it showed designs that were exclusively classical; the designs were not pipe dreams, but had either been built or were under construction; and the projects were not just country houses for the superrich but a wide range of buildings, including a theater, an infirmary, cottages, row houses, and offices for a London art dealer.

The British architectural establishment either ignores or ridicules traditional and classical architecture of this kind. The establishment’s leaders are afraid, or they should be afraid, of classical architecture’s popularity with the general public, whose preference for it over modernist design comes through in every poll. Their fear is justified: they would be unable to satisfy public taste by designing in the classical language themselves, for they have abolished the teaching of classicism in every school of architecture in Britain over the last 50 years.

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Already making the rounds and stirring up some noise is one of Roger Ebert's latest posts for the Sun Times, "The Image of a Man You Do Not See," which if you're either a Chicago architecture or Louis Sullivan buff, you'll recognize as a quote from the famous architect (in full, as Ebert prints it: "Every building you see is the image of a man you do not see."). As you've guessed, the post is about architecture.
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