May/June
2001
Golf
Sprawl
As new courses consume land, more Americans take to
the links and live around them. Has the craze gone
too far?
By James Morgan
Modernism Exposure
For decades, photographers promoted a new architecture.
Their images might well have shaped the buildings,
too.
By Robert Campbell
The Real Littleton
When a small Colorado city was affected by a tragedy
next door, it rose to the occasion.
By Reed Karaim
The Ways of Cork
A recession saved the Irish city from wholesale clearance;
now prosperity menaces its old buildings one by one.
By Brendan Donegan
The Lure of the New
If fashion rules our food, dress, and buildings, how
does architecture survive the public's fickle
tastes?
By Witold Rybczynski
Preservation
News
Transitions •
Tacoma, Wash., saves a historic school, but at what
cost? • Buildings filled
with high-tech equipment leave little room for people
• Baltimore Archbishop Keeler trusts in an inspired
work of architecture • Vandals
deface a historic Sonoran mission • Students
launch the only grocery in Arthur, Neb. • Protests
challenge a 2004 Olympics complex planned on the ancient
Marathon battlefield • Auto bodies and
human bodies • A small
Maine town tends to a reading room enriched by Katharine
and E.B. White • Who's News
Place: The tough little Blue Ridge town of Ivanhoe,
Va., has slowly opened up to the outside world.
By David Huddle
Travel:
Remnants of its sugar plantation
history linger on St. Croix. So does a determination
to leave the past behind.
By Adam Goodheart
Books:
The libraries of the ancient world; the anatomy of
a church, Rome's Sant'Agnese fuori le Mura
Reviews by Garry Wills and
Brian Doyle
Interiors: Put the kids to work, and the house on
a plate. Spoon-feeding fine art and high politics.
Plus, tray chic
By M.G. Lord
The Back page: Sipping our pleasures, or what we
could gain from a world gone slow
By Dwight Young
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