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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)
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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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