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Rum Outram

English architect John Outram has long defied classification. Look at www.johnoutram.com and you'll see what I mean. You could, I suppose, call him a kind of Classicist--except it's kind-of Classicism out of Louis Kahn who was, if memory serves me, one of Outram's heroes back in the early years. On the other hand maybe he's the true inheritor of the Classical mantle. Whenever you jeer at latterday retro-Classicalists they point out that the tradition they espouse is vibrant and innovative and creative and continuing. You look at their architecture and say 'Oh, yeah? How about Classical-by-numbers instead?' But not Outram. One of his many (and ...

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