With the loosening of the corset of Modernism in recent years has come a renewed interest in Mediterranean Classicism. Scholars have begun once again to seriously study the tradition at various points in its history. It is appropriate, therefore, to start to reassess this longstanding tradition and to evaluate its potential application in our own time. It is this charge that Wayne Attoe and Charles Moore have addressed in the making of this journal. They have not attempted to be comprehensive or conclusive on the topic, but rather to collect bits and pieces to enhance our understanding or expand our perceptions.
ISBN: 0-8478-5414-0
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Why Classicism . . . And Why Not?, by Wayne Attoe
A Note From Charles Jencks, by Charles Jencks
DREAMS FOR RES PUBLICA
James Riely Gordon and the Skycolumn, by Lila Stillson
Some City Halls, by Wayne Attoe and Charles W. Moore with Renard Roy
Fair Park, Dallas, by Larry Speck
On the Possibility of Classic Traffic, by Wayne Attoe and David Bogle
Work in the Public Realm
LANDSCAPES REAL AND IMAGINED
The Mediterranean Villa in America: Three Episodes, by David Gebhard
Gardens as Mediation, by Wayne Attoe, David Bogle and Charles W. Moore
Paseo del Alamo, Ford, Powell & Carson
Plan for a Place
Gardens for a Director: Florence Yoch's Italian Renaissance Lancscapes for Romeo and Juliet and for George Cukor's Home, by James J. Yoch, Jr.
Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Gardens, Jones & Jones
TYPES AND VARIEGATION
The Varieties of Collegiate Classicism, by Paul Venable Turner
Adaptations of Classical Themes in Kansas City, by Richard Farnan
Court Living, by Katherine Liapi and Charles W. Moore
Regionalist Details in Classicist Settings
Recipe for Success: Shopping Center a la Zabaglione, by Sylvia McIntyre and Charles W. Moore
Davis Addition, Houston, Peter Papademetriou
Robinson/Burney House, Albuquerque, Antoine Predock
THE QUALITY OF CLASSICAL DREAMS
Free-Style Classicism: True and False, by Martin Filler
Timeliness and Timelessness, by Lawrence W. Speck
The Qualities of Quality, by Charles W. Moore
EDITORS
Wayne Attoe
Carles W. Moore
EXECUTIVE EDITOR
Susan R. Hoover
CONSULTING EDITOR
Larry Paul Fuller
