Let me talk about flat roofs: the premier modernist obsession and also the point where even a layperson can call their bluff. Here we go...
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Replying to @wrathofgnon
All durable traditional architecture in non-desert areas have pitched roofs, usually, the more rain, the steeper the roof. Not so modernist.pic.twitter.com/RmzIuE7tlz
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Replying to @wrathofgnon
Even then, as Léon Krier shows here, you can not actually build really flat roofs. It is all tricks and very expensive maintenance bills.pic.twitter.com/PDQ3uvHUDM
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Built to break in a sense. You don't want something that lasts forever, or even 100 years. Planned obsolescence is what fuels capitalism
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