Mar
12
New Developments in Park East
Aisha Motlani CityscapeI was in the Park East neighborhood today to check out a couple of new developments: The almost complete Flatiron building on the corner of N. Jefferson and Water, and Convent Hill, also on N. Jefferson.
The former is a rather snazzy structure which
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Mar
08
The Agile Architect
Aisha Motlani CityscapeNo wonder so many architecture students fail to go the distance, or if they do manage to drag themselves through the minimum 7 years it takes to qualify with a few shreds of their ego still intact, eventually decide to surrender themselves to a less painf
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Mar
07
Long Live Shadows
Aisha Motlani CityscapeWhat in Mies' name can explain our obsession with glass? Ever since the God of Detail himself began wrapping his buldings with the stuff it seems to have retained a vice-grip on the designer's imagination. At best its proliferation in new buildings exhibi
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Mar
06
Picasso at the Petlz
Aisha Motlani CityscapeEven a modest selection of his work shows the range of expression of which Picasso was capable. Take the collection of his etchings, lithographs, aquatints and linocuts on display at the Peltz Gallery through March 15.
Though informally arranged on the w
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Mar
02
Holy Cow!
Aisha Motlani CityscapeWhimsical: Capricious, fanciful, subject to erratic, unpredictable behavior. The result of an unrestrained imagination. A word which, I believe, is applied to art that we neither like nor understand but which we're nontheless afraid of criticizing. It's k
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Feb
29
Green is Good...Greening is Better
Aisha Motlani CityscapeIn response to Jim Draeger's comment, it would seem people are gradually becoming aware that the idea of out with the old, in with the new is not always a viable option for greening our enviroment (though many continue to believe it's cheaper to start fr
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Feb
26
Continuity Vs. Change
Aisha Motlani CityscapeOn Thursday Historic Milwaukee held the second in a series of four discussion panels about urban development in Milwaukee - this time concerning Milwaukee’s historic districts. Though it began as a somewhat dry presentation on how a district qualifi
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Feb
25
Green is Good
Aisha Motlani CityscapeFor some reason when I hear the term environmental architecture it conjures up dour-faced buildings with shaggy grass roofs. It likewise transports me to dimly lit lecture halls full of students watching slides of stick men wantonly perspiring and thereby
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