Carroll William Westfall is an architectural historian and professor known for his scholarship on classical architecture and urbanism. He contributed articles to The Weekly Standard in 2017, writing about architecture, urbanism, and the tension between historical preservation and modernity in Italian cities.
If Venice dies, we will be left with nothing but the dozens of cities and suburbs with Venice in their name and Disney-like replicas in Las Vegas, Dubai, and Chongqing, along with yet another being proposed right next to Venice itself. If Venice dies, the world would lose “an unbearable challenge…
If Venice dies, we will be left with nothing but the dozens of cities and suburbs with Venice in their name and Disney-like replicas in Las Vegas, Dubai, and Chongqing, along with yet another being proposed right next to Venice itself. If Venice dies, the world would lose “an unbearable challenge…