Deconstructivism
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Deconstructivism
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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We will leave Monsieur Le Corbusier’s style to him, a style suitable for factories and hospitals, and no doubt eventually for prisons. (Doesn’t he already build churches?) Some sort of psychological repression dominates this individual — whose face is as ugly as his conceptions of the world — such that he wants to squash people under ignoble masses... See more
Formulary for a New Urbanism
Can the presence of a high-rise structure truly create such a threatening atmosphere and social tension, culminating in murder, decay, destruction and even anarchy? The series, “A Future City From The Past” is based on this mystifying vision of a radically aggressive urban dystopia — an uncompromising design in the brutalist dogma. All buildings
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