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To: jbe who wrote (343)	10/18/1999 2:57:00 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 3246

Well, that in itself is a point for the importance of the architecture! Of course, the great modernists thought that they were reflecting the spirit of the age, both in its technological advances, and in its emerging cosmopolitanism, just as the architects of Washington strove for Neo- classical rectitude....Now, let me amplify my remarks: Architecture, by being the most visible and ubiquitous embodiment of our social life, expresses the sensibility of the times most profoundly. It embodies particular values, such as gaudiness or austerity, frivolity or gravity, through its design and decoration, and thus affects our sense of propriety. Of course, there is not homogeneity in architecture, but there are trends which affect significantly discrete districts and tend eventually to unify larger urban or suburban areas in some degree....