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Cydney E. Millstein ]]> Cydney Millstein http://places.designobserver.com/feature/up-to-date-in-kansas-city/10817/#comments 2010-01-07T14:46:10-05:00 Nancy Levinson http://places.designobserver.com/feature/up-to-date-in-kansas-city/10817/#comments 2010-01-04T01:56:12-05:00
Cydney E. Millstein
Author of the National Register of Historic Places Nomination, the National Historic Landmark Nomination and the HABS Documentation for Liberty Memorial ]]> Cydney Millstein http://places.designobserver.com/feature/up-to-date-in-kansas-city/10817/#comments 2010-01-01T19:57:48-05:00
Brownlee argues that modernism was understood in the 1920s to be about program and planning rather than formal vocabulary. Looking at two buildings that employed classical forms and details, he explains that Cret's Free Library was seen as modern, because its exterior form arose from the rational arrangement of the spaces inside; while Horace Trumbauer's Philadelphia Museum of Art was not, because it was composed first for scenic value, with the relationship of interior spaces subservient to the exterior expression.]]> Tobias Wolf http://places.designobserver.com/feature/up-to-date-in-kansas-city/10817/#comments 2009-11-14T09:35:08-05:00
Driving past, one doesn't sense the scale, or the beauty, especially as famliarity makes it invisible, but up close, it's grand and emotional.]]> LoCascio http://places.designobserver.com/feature/up-to-date-in-kansas-city/10817/#comments 2009-11-13T12:54:58-05:00 DJG Design http://places.designobserver.com/feature/up-to-date-in-kansas-city/10817/#comments 2009-11-13T12:53:49-05:00
If anyone is interested in seeing more of the Liberty Memorial, here is a link to some of my photos:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrism70/sets/998243/

and here is a link to pictures I took during the dedication of the official World War I Memorial Grand Opening:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrism70/sets/72157594402722457/]]> ChrisM70 http://places.designobserver.com/feature/up-to-date-in-kansas-city/10817/#comments 2009-11-13T02:15:39-05:00 Look at the Sepulveda flood dam for another reinforced concrete structure from slightly later.
Paul Cret's buildings in Philadelphia are great and were a major influence on Louis Kahn, also a students of Cret.
The sometimes different philosophies of the architecture contributes to the discarding of the past rather than perceiving it as a continuum.
Think of how reviled Gehry was at one point and how lionized he is today, this may shift again.]]> Sluggo http://places.designobserver.com/feature/up-to-date-in-kansas-city/10817/#comments 2009-11-12T13:11:14-05:00 Nola Devitt http://places.designobserver.com/feature/up-to-date-in-kansas-city/10817/#comments 2009-11-12T11:16:30-05:00
The "subterranean" museum redesign was done mostly by Ralph Appelbaum Associates under the direction of Josh Dudley (at least he's the guy who gave a presentation here in 2006 on the whole process).

Thanks for the article Mr. Eggener. And happy Veterans Day!

Very Respectfully,

Joe Moran]]> Joe Moran http://places.designobserver.com/feature/up-to-date-in-kansas-city/10817/#comments 2009-11-11T18:20:41-05:00