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  1. Skallagrim

    Modernist Architects On a Crusade Against Beauty

    Indeed, so not people at all. I find that we're all better off with cathedrals. ;) But to be quite honest, I would choose even a mosque over modernism.
  2. Skallagrim

    Modernist Architects On a Crusade Against Beauty

    Although your terminology is different from my own, and (perhaps unintentionally) a bit more dismissive of the importance and the positive function of religion, I am in agreement with your general argument. My main addition here is that every society needs a form of structure that goes beyond...
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    Modernist Architects On a Crusade Against Beauty

    I feel that the big competitor of the Empire State Building -- the Chrysler Building -- is far more elegant. But look at it: Now cover that top section with your hand. You'll find that the bottom section is in fact quite mundane and ugly. Indeed, that's where it's conventionally "modernist"...
  4. Skallagrim

    Modernist Architects On a Crusade Against Beauty

    This has been said to you like a dozen times already, and you seem to just refuse to get it: Stop conflating technological advances with modernist politics and social "progress". You keep doing it, and it keeps being stupid as Hell. Despite what whiggish historians have liked to claim (in a...
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