A gracious Gothic Revival in Brookhaven

English bond brick and elegant drip cap accent entry. We need to see this level of detail in more traditional home designs.

No I'm not a Classicist

My architecture is not prone to overt Classicism, though I'm sympathetic to those who seek to relate their Architecture to humanity by means of a system as deep as that. Beyond the Kriers and Adams, Thomas Gordon Smith, and the lot, here's another: Quinlan Terry of England, kindly pointed out by Greg Mix, a Classicist local to Atlanta. He's not as fun as Shutze, nor does anyone quite draw like the Kriers, and rarely do Classicists show humor like Smith's early work, but he'll do for domestic tranquility, of which we are in need right now.

Defending What?

Let's state the basics. This is a series of views whose objective is the retaking of a culture from the nekulturny who have hijacked it. It is named for an earthen fortress that once protected a young city against attack, but which was abandoned as a new and unsuccessful strategy evolved to defend the city. The defenders were routed in the field, the city evacuated and plundered, eventually to be rebuilt under rule of the conquerors. A playground lays where cannon stood. The conquerors had their good points and readily assimilated some of the better points of the vanquished, so society functions with domestic tranquility, lawfulness, industry, and art. But some notes still don't ring true, and our prime objective is to identify false notes and recast the bell.