Reconstructing Lost Architecture: A Commendable Tradition - Lecture by Calder Loth

[@tompommerel2136]

Calder Loth, I REALLY APPRECIATE you alerting us to study, understand, recognise and remember the past of classical architectural revivals & restorations.

[@bryanjconlon]

Bravo to Reconstruction. Thank you Calder Loth for leading the way, and pointing out that nothing is impossible.

[@chrisallen7911]

Thank you Calder Loth for all you do to see that our Historical Architecture is preserved and reconstructed. I pray that Classical Architecture will see a renaissance as it did in the 1930s.

[@rexlex1736]

Superb documentary! I agree that Penn Station should be reconstructed.

[@dongliang3946]

This gentleman is a genius!

[@TWOCOWS1]

I love you Dr. Loth. Your sentiments vis a vis the lost Penn Station and the need to rebuild it, are the same as mine. Do you have a society for its reconstruction? I would love to join.

[@justinleemiller]

Really inspiring talk. I visited the Frauenkirche in Dresden over the summer. The interior is breathtaking.

[@paulmezhir8354]

Excellent, very informative lecture. Thank you. As a Buffalonian, I would love to see Frank Lloyd Wright's Larkin Administration Building reconstructed in situ. The recent completion of the Darwin D. Martin house, in addition to the construction of the Blue Sky mausoleum and the Fontana boathouse projects, have been very beneficial to the historic architectural legacy of Buffalo.

[@howardcharlesyourow4124]

This is the way to go !

[@thomastannler3875]

You took a really boring Friday night and made it very interesting indeed.

[@tinychud6327]

there is hope in this grim brutalist world

[@Benjaminwolf]

Wonderful talk!

[@TWOCOWS1]

Where is the "upcoming lecture" promised at the conclusion of this lecture? It is supposed to concentrated on RECONSTRUCTION plans for Penn Stations!

[@johnfree2833]

Feeding the hungry more important than a building.

[@robertwoodpa6463]

Add to this the Berlin Palace completed 2021at 41:16

[@javierpacheco8234]

Nothing is impossible, we could build entire gothic cathedrals if we wanted to in this era. Only if we care about it and build it.

[@ts3784]

can any one tell me how old marble or stone columns were made? especially the one piece pillars which are so straight and smooth. i ca not find any materials on this

[@ejakobs9881]

51:35 Wow is all I can say. The nerve of somebody to put that up.. good grief.

[@johnerwin9024]

Seen pictures of the original station, current station a failure :(

[@z2u]

The Castle area of Budapest is being rebuilt to perfection. The main building was rebuilt by the Russians that but far from perfection. Castle hill and much of the city was bombed along with all its Bridges it been a thrill watching the rebuild with original materials. 3 have been completed with 4 under construction and there are plans to rebuild the main palace exterior. I never thought I would live to see the kind of work being done. I I’ve next to Williamsburg in the late 60s

[@geebereal]

Nice

[@Wanamaker1946]

Re-construct Whitemarsh Hall, and do it better.

[@sjenner76]

A fun lecture. But one that unfortunately avoided the interesting and challenging questions around the decision to reconstruct historic buildings, the judgment calls such a decision incorporates, and the ideological underpinnings of the effort. For example, the question about which phases of an historical building to consider appropriate for reconstruction is important; which is closely related to the historic and current motivations for including and excluding certain elements. In reconstructing a plantation house, do we then also reconstruct the slave quarters on the property? Originally they were conceived as a unit, meaning is right to reconstruct one without the other? Is reconstruction even the right approach? Or evocation more appropriate? Moreover, the abuse of reconstruction by regimes and movements to prop up and aggrandize their own objectives is critically important. Russia is a case study, with the active mining of Czarist Imperial history and reconstruction of its lost architectural forms and buildings being used to underpin the grander ambitions of the Putin state. Should these efforts be embraced? To say never reconstruct, as the Venice Charter states, is clearly incorrect. But a glib approach to reconstruction as a worthy end in and of itself is a dangerous path. The decision to reconstruct should be difficult. And it would have been interesting to hear more about that issue--one Mr. Loth appears to have not considered much if at all, although which is central to his topic.

[@kimberlyperrotis8962]

The audience microphones need to be turned on.

[@vahakna]

It should using old way tradition material by not using modern material in today for reconstruction historic buildings

[@Catubrannos]

Some traditional materials are not earthquake proof and some used materials like old growth trees that were plentiful at the time but not so now. What is important is the form and function and less so accurate supporting structures that aren't visible.