To: Covenantor
grand utopian schemes most popularly embodied in Le Corbusier's Ville Radieusse (sp?) which envisioned mammoth mid rise worker housing undulating like snakes through a green zone This book opened my eyes: Living Machines: Bauhaus Architecture as Sexual Ideology
As a child, I was very skeptical of human filing cabinets.
38 posted on
05/03/2014 5:30:27 AM PDT by
St_Thomas_Aquinas
( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
LOL! Human filing cabinets. How apt. I’m stealing that for the next retired architects bat hop. Will peruse that strange link later. Can’t recall the author but one arch critic said the austere Bauhaus movement laid waste to the entire field of building trade craftsmen and that drywall sealed their tombs.
44 posted on
05/03/2014 6:23:04 AM PDT by
Covenantor
("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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