Spaces; Teach Kids Good Design, and They'll Grow Up to Value It
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel › October 31, 2005
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They're everywhere: sprawling mega-mansions with a veritable mountain range of gables, or a jumble of roof types (Prairie, mansard, hip) and a galloping parade of pseudo-Palladian arches, or a patchwork of too-small (or too-big) dormers and bays. Sometimes you see the entire unholy mess slathered onto a single house. It's the architectural equivalent of a banana split crossed with a club sandwich.
How did the landscape come to be littered with this stuff? ("Junkitecture," a design maven friend of mine calls it.) More to the point, how to encourage the opposite thoughtful, well- proportioned, handsomely detailed buildings that people will enjoy for generations?See the full content of this document
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Spaces; Teach Kids Good Design, and They'll Grow Up to Value It
I'm convinced that part of the solution lies with basic education about design. It was a high-school class in architecture and city planning that sparked my own lifelong interest in what I now write about for this newspaper. ...
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