Most impressive and suggests a way to avoid builiding innovated
new buildings too. Just do the digital version, save the environment,
protect inhabitants from wretched and hazardous experiences,
kill off development, remove the feeding tube of developers and
corrupt politicians, and best the designers can replicate their
conceits and sell thousands like videos and movies and mags
and fish wrap, all the while being praised for their genuis,
never getting sued for mistakes, never getting ridiculed for
promising more than they can deliver, never suffering the
indignity of the end result being nowwhere near as good
as the imaginary.
A real estate newspaper headline today declares, "Modernism
has come into its own!" 80 years late and nothing like the
promise of modernism, but what the hell, modernism never
delivered on its promise beyond a few examples, and in
any case, isms are most useful as advertising to establish
imaginary worthiness.
How many actual instances of modernism's great buildings
have you actually visited and wondered if they are better or
worse than what you were led to believe? So for historical
monuments. Same for the untainted natural environment.
Scary experiences, the unmediated, unvarnished. Best to
buy through the nose for the real fake. My computer is
my best fake friend.
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new buildings too. Just do the digital version, save the environment,
protect inhabitants from wretched and hazardous experiences,
kill off development, remove the feeding tube of developers and
corrupt politicians, and best the designers can replicate their
conceits and sell thousands like videos and movies and mags
and fish wrap, all the while being praised for their genuis,
never getting sued for mistakes, never getting ridiculed for
promising more than they can deliver, never suffering the
indignity of the end result being nowwhere near as good
as the imaginary.
A real estate newspaper headline today declares, "Modernism
has come into its own!" 80 years late and nothing like the
promise of modernism, but what the hell, modernism never
delivered on its promise beyond a few examples, and in
any case, isms are most useful as advertising to establish
imaginary worthiness.
How many actual instances of modernism's great buildings
have you actually visited and wondered if they are better or
worse than what you were led to believe? So for historical
monuments. Same for the untainted natural environment.
Scary experiences, the unmediated, unvarnished. Best to
buy through the nose for the real fake. My computer is
my best fake friend.
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