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Architecture Matters

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On the Necessity of Beauty

In Architecture Matters by George DoddsMay 20, 2015leave a COMMENT

In one of his finest short stories, Earnest Hemingway wrote of a man who, having given up on such ineffables as beauty, desired of life only “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” …

It’s Time to Start Treating the Fort Loudoun Reservoir Like a Real River

In Architecture Matters by George DoddsMay 6, 2015leave a COMMENT

Knoxville has a parkway that is not a parkway (the James White) and a river that is not a river, at least not in the tradition of a naturally flowing …

What Should We Do With the James White Parkway?

In Architecture Matters by George DoddsApril 22, 2015leave a COMMENT

Infrastructure wasn’t much of a hot-button topic in this country until relatively recently. There have always been occasional inter-beltway debates over Amtrak funding and other rail-related projects. That said, during …

The Delible Lightness of Building

In Architecture Matters by George DoddsApril 8, 2015leave a COMMENT

“’Course I’m respectable. I’m old. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.” —Noah Cross, Chinatown (1974) History, both long past and recent, demonstrates the …

An Art Untrue: Difficult Lessons From the New Walnut Street Garage

In Architecture Matters by George DoddsMarch 25, 2015leave a COMMENT

An old friend once quipped, “The half-life of missing the point is forever.” He could have been speaking of the new Walnut Street parking garage in downtown Knoxville. Just as …

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