Posted on 03/27/2021 9:22:12 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Sadiq Khan’s “Housing Design Advocate” has denounced traditional architecture as “offensive” and said it “harks back to oppression”.
Dinah Bornat made the remarks on social media in response to a post featuring a new house in the Georgian style shared by the Create Streets social enterprise.
“The fortress style/display of wealth resonates through time. I wonder is it starting to resonate just a little too much for a lot of us? Imperialism starting to look, well, offensive? Just a thought,” she declared in a now-deleted Twitter tirade.
She went on to complain that the alleged “replica approach” taken by the building’s designers “stifles cultural debate” and that defining it as beautiful was “politically troubling”.
“If beauty harks back to oppression we are on very dangerous ground,” she suggested.
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maybe someone should mention to her that the whole oppression and slave trade thing started with Africans enslavng white Europeans going back beyond even Greece - and continues today. Greco-Roman architecture is a symbol of a time of liberation from that oppression until imposed again in the 8th century by the Berber Moors.
que the Monty Python music
pretty much
Acid trip house.
Onion domes are very Russian
Where is George Obamas hut?
I’m sure it’s in there somewhere. :-)
Yes, sort of. I guess, Mutually exclusive.
Not quite Casa Mila but interesting nonetheless.
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