Traditional Architecture Compendium

A Compilation of Articles of and About Classical and Traditional Architecture

Christine G. H. Franck Comments Delivered at "After the Crisis: Is This a New Era for Traditional Design." Art Workers Guild, London. February 9, 2011. INTBAU/TAG Conference.

February 9, 2011

 

My dear friends and colleagues,

I wish I could be with you today, but it is a good sign I could not be, since a lecture to over 200 architects in Boston yesterday meant I could not make a late evening flight to London. Indeed, while the years beginning in the fall of 2008 have been terrifyingly slow, over the last six to eight months there has been a palpable optimism that we will recover.

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THE SPANISH COLONIAL HOUSES OF ST. AUGUSTINE

Colonial is a common adjective used to describe American houses.  Yet which colonial do we mean?  Normally we are referring to English Colonial Houses.  Yet, from Florida to California, our colonial history is primarily Spanish, not English. Our oldest continuously inhabited city, St. Augustine, Florida, and early Southwest missions were built by Spanish conquerors, colonists, and missionaries. 

   

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