Comments on: Occupy Le Corbusier

By: Grurray

Grurray — Wed, 20 Apr 2016 18:27:55 +0000

Personally, I wouldn't shed a tear if all their concrete was ground to dust, but Le Corbusier disciples have been staging a counterattack these past few years. They're pushing to re-brand Brutalism as the Heroic Period or somesuch neo-nonsense.

By: August Hurtel

August Hurtel — Wed, 20 Apr 2016 16:27:04 +0000

Try Christopher Alexander's Nature of Order. Or even his earlier works in the 70s: The Timeless Way of Building and A Pattern Language. He's definitely coming out of a Berkeley hippie milieu, but he ends up pretty solid. Certainly would be useful for conservatives, if they ever stopped reading crap meant solely to confirm their biases. Alexander is the antidote to Corbusier and the like.

By: Bob Sykes

Bob Sykes — Wed, 20 Apr 2016 13:09:50 +0000

It goes unremarked that all (as in all) of the protagonists of the new architecture were either fascists (like Corbusier and Johnson) or Nazis. Modern architects are both incompetent and corrupt as well as totalitarian socialists.