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Architecture Matters

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Collegiate Gothic at UTK Today: When the Legend Becomes Fact, Print the Legend

In Architecture Matters by George DoddsOctober 27, 2016leave a COMMENT

Architectural criticism is a relatively recent invention; we have the Victorian John Ruskin to thank for it, who, as its paterfamilias, tended to funnel his sexual energies towards architraves, frescos, …

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Why Knoxville’s Metropolitan Statistical Area Should Matter to You

In Architecture Matters by George DoddsSeptember 28, 2016leave a COMMENT

Jay McInerney could have set his chronicle of the narcotized 1980s in Los Angeles, Dallas-Fort Worth, or any number of sprawling American metro-zones that were equally awash with “Bolivian Marching …

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Build, Raze, Repeat: UT’s New Mantra for New Dorms on its Knoxville Campus

In Architecture Matters by George DoddsAugust 31, 2016leave a COMMENT

In August 2015, the University of Tennessee demolished the Apartment Residence Hall dormitories on its Knoxville campus, not long after the decade-older Shelbourne Towers were leveled. This in itself shouldn’t …

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Past-Forward: Part 2

In Architecture Matters by George DoddsMarch 23, 2016leave a COMMENT

If history is an arc, as the American 19th-century transcendentalist Theodore Parker conceived the moral universe, in the world of architectural production that curvature is a pendulum’s path. At one …

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Past-Forward: 
Part 1

In Architecture Matters by George DoddsJanuary 20, 2016leave a COMMENT

“What’s past is prologue.” —William Shakespeare, The Tempest The ancient Romans had a useful double-faced god called Janus (Ianuarius). He presided over war and was the guardian of transitions and …

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