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Building on Truth

Philip Bess

Building is a willful act of symbolic import, sometimes intended and sometimes not, and all architecture expresses the power of its makers and their aspiration to legitimate authority. This...

The Rich You Will Always Have With You

Philip Bess

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Timeless Cities: An Architect’s Reflections on Renaissance Italy

Philip Bess

In the moderately memorable 1997 movie The Edge , Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin portray characters marooned in the Alaskan wilderness. In their dramatic struggle to survive both the...

Democracy’s Private Places

Philip Bess

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A Dutch Master and the Good Life

Philip Bess

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