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Pastimes : A CENTURY OF LIONS/THE 20TH CENTURY TOP 100
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To: jbe who wrote (324)10/18/1999 4:15:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (1) of 3246
 
The houses that most of us live in are dictated by price of materials and of construction. Architecture reduced to minimalism. Anti-architecture, really.
And jmho, of course - most public or community buildings (like workplaces or schools) that have a more obvious architect's imprint are coyote howlin' ugly. Dissonant conglomerations of blocks and slabs.
The banner edifices that define a civilization - pyramids, Parthenon, cathedral ... are hors classe. One in a million. Of buildings put together in the last 100 years, very few strike me as successful experiments in architecture. Sydney Opera House, maybe. The Chrysler Building. Ronchamp (le Corbusier). (...) The VAB at the Cape.
But so much else was just ... noise. The Pompidoleum. Any of the skyscrapers (just think World Trade Center or Sears Tower).
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