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Building Classical: A Vision of Europe and America

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It is time to take stock of the current architectural milieu. Our cities, as is so blatantly obvious, are in dire need of restoration. Our countryside is quickly disappearing. Our buildings are mere objects of ephemeral vanity. The solution is not found in technology, as the technocrats would have us believe. Certainly, the answer cannot be found in the vagaries of modernist thought found in the so-called academies of architecture as the theorists would have us swallow. The path to the solution lies not in the pseudo-intellectual jargon of reckless, and perverted deconstructivists, but rather the way can be found all around. One just has to look closely without the blinders provided by the architectural establishment. Who cares what the New York Times Architectural Critic has to say if the layperson cannot possibly comprehend what the "edge of between" means? No one with any common sense. Common sense. Useful term in this instance, since it is exactly that very idea that is found in Building Cities. The answer lies in the traditions passed down to us through time whose principles are always applicable. Common sense is at the core of finding that the way we are currently building has failed us as a society, and done more harm to our environment than the centuries previous to the 20th century combined. Building Cities brings to light the foundations of what the Traditional City has meant to millenia of people, and how its principles can be applied to ameliorate the current condition for generations to follow. All it takes is common sense. Common sense to realize modernism has failed miserably.