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Thursday, July 14, 2011

MIES - The Fourth Age of Soviet Architecture

In going across the internet in search of more algorithmic designs, I've come across these monstrosities, which bear mentioning... I guess. If every cookbook is made of thousands of recipes that don't work, I'd wager this era of architecture - the fourth era of soviet architect according to Frederic Chaubin, the editor-in-chief of French lifestyle magazine Citizen K - is problem one of those recipes. And yet, somewhere within the brutality lies some common sense for what we think of Post-Modernism. The repetition, the over-reliance on one material (stone) and the sheer size definitely bear some form of contemplation, even if that does consist of throwing away this internet page into the nearest wastebasket.







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