Rockne Mountain High
Reflections on the Campus Crossroads project: The institutional impact of the project is being actively marketed as an intersection between football, academics, student life and campus infrastructure; as such, it finds interest with virtually everyone who has ever been associated with Notre Dame.
Classical Architecture: Or how we learned to stop worrying and love the rules
A lot has been made, in the last few posts, of the difference between vernacular and classical architecture. Interestingly, at…
The Column
The law school and the Gothic lexicon As we return for the second half of the spring semester, I find…
Tempest in a teapot – Michael Graves and the Driehaus Prize
The Students for Classical Architecture hosted a student discussion with Michael Lykoudis, the Francis and Kathleen Rooney Dean of the…
The Column
India outsources its archaeology to American students who work for free In my last article, I gave a brief introduction…
The Column
Research in India, or how I spent my winter vacation Over the break, two contingents of architecture undergraduates specializing in…
Owning beauty: The suburb in the American imagination, Part IV
Notre Dame’s School of Architecture is well known for its new urbanist tendencies, but I think what is more important…
Owning beauty: The suburb in the American imagination, Part III
The mortgage interest deduction (MID) is a well-known tax incentive, the popularity of which arguably exceeds its efficacy. The typical…
Owning beauty: The suburb in the American imagination, Part II
At the end of my last column, I outlined two important arguments about the social contract between companies and people. …
Owning beauty: The suburb in the American imagination, Part I
In this column, I will once again be looking beyond the verdant, rain-soaked parklands of Notre Dame. Besides avoiding running…
