Aleksey P
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Aleksey P
In Copenhagen on June 7, 1991, NATO passed a resolution declaring they would neither attempt to gain one sided advantage from the changing situation in Europe nor draw new dividing lines in the continent.
The basic rule of multigenerational chaotic plans is that the first item of information entering the system determines how the system processes subsequent information.
“The catastrophe in the making — in every town and city — indicates that good urban planning principles and traditional codes cannot be replaced by open-ended political negotiations between partial-interest “stakeholders.” Nor can the dominant Modernist typologies — skyscrapers; metastatic, monofunctional suburbs; and McMansions - be sustained
... See more“Having eradicated from the profession the knowledge base of what came before, planners, in the name of progress, try to create out of thin air solutions to problems that for millennia had been resolved. Worse, in their development and construction, they unethically experiment on live subjects. The sole criterion for their designs is that no one
... See more“For two hundred and fifty years, the machine has been replacing Man and destroying the handcraftsman. Pottery is spewed out of molds and presses. Works of art have been replaced by identical gimcracks stamped out on a die. Call it progress, if you wish! The artist is restricted to abstractions, confined to the world of ideas. He must design
... See moreDon't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
Anton Chekhov
Балуй внутреннего зверя.
CIAM proponents claimed everything that came before as useless. To them, the world was a tabula rasa, and they worked vigorously to eradicate anything traditional from the toolkit of architects. While elitist and authoritarian if not fascist in their pronouncements, they undertook Le Corbusier’s hypocritically self-aggrandizing style war.
Modernist
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