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How Quickly Modernism Needs Refurbishing
I.M. Pei's East Wing for the National Gallery in Washington, DC, was completed in 1978. 33 years later it needs a new skin? Yes, he used an experimental wall system. And people just won't remember that some experiments don't work.
John Russell Pope's building next door? Holding up just fine after 60 years.
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Uploaded on Feb 1, 2012
How Quickly Modernism Needs Refurbishing
I.M. Pei's East Wing for the National Gallery in Washington, DC, was completed in 1978. 33 years later it needs a new skin? Yes, he used an experimental wall system. And people just won't remember that some experiments don't work.
John Russell Pope's building next door? Holding up just fine after 60 years.
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Uploaded on Feb 1, 2012
The Majesty of Law
Yeah, that's what it says. Outside the Rayburn Office Building in DC.
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Uploaded on Jan 14, 2012
The Maize Order
Benjamin Latrobe designed columns in this adaptation of the Corinthian for the United States Capitol -- these still show fire damage from the British sack of Washington, DC.
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Uploaded on Jan 13, 2012
Roma in restauro
Glimpses of Rome
Ancient Rome
Early Christian Rome
Medieval Art in Rome
Baroque Rome
Modern Rome
Ostia Antica
Buzzi - La Scarzuola
Paestum - Posidonia
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