Rebuttal: Modernism is clarifying and vital, but Corbu did kind of suck.
Reminder: Modernism is sadism, & Le Corbusier was an architectural sociopath.https://twitter.com/createstreets/status/1199396290716667904 …
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I visited Corbusier's Cité Radieuse. Not impressed...pic.twitter.com/b6pGx1W9ib
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Not everyone's a maximalist who needs to stim on architecture - some people prefer simplicity, and extracting greater sums from lesser parts
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Your aesthetic appreciation is literally violent.
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I need to find a way to work "architectural sociopath" into my everyday life more.
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Can you imagine if they « cleared it away ». Lord
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Le Corbusier was awful; we're dealing with many of the problems that he introduced. But "sociopath" is not a good term in this context; it implies a degree of uncaring. Corbusier meant well, and it is vital to remember that good intentions doesn't always mean good results.
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i dislike him as much as anyone, but his practice was deeply informed by humanist ideals (modulor for example, or his bauhaus-like concern for affordable mass production). like many architects of his era, he truly believed what he was doing was best for the people.
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bit like i wouldn't say xenakis was a sadistic composer. it might seem so when listening to a lot of his pieces, but he really thought he was going to push music into a future fit for a new mankind. hubris yes, but not sadism or cynicism.
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