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May I ask why? He always struck me as someone a bit disconnected from how humans actually work. Stewart Brand has a show about all the changes people had to mak
by dr_dshiv 5y ago
May I ask why? He always struck me as someone a bit disconnected from how humans actually work. Stewart Brand has a show about all the changes people had to make his buildings livable.
* edit: I hadn’t read the article! It’s awesome
- bouvin 5y agoI suppose that I have always found his designs very beautiful. (I also happen to enjoy the aesthetics of (good) brutalist architecture).
- brohee 5y agoThe show was made after his book. The book is on archive.org https://archive.org/details/howbuildingslear00bran_0/page/n5/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/howbuildingslear00bran_0/page/n5... His videos are on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/brandst/videos https://www.youtube.com/user/brandst/videos
- drstewart 5y ago>May I ask why? He always struck me as someone a bit disconnected from how humans actually work While it's popular to dump on Corbusier today, especially with the hindsight of history and what we know about urban planning now (and I mostly agree with it), you have to look through the lens of what he was working with at the time. City centers were areas of blight, not hip places with third wave coffee shops on them. Waterfronts were dilapidated docks, not pleasant beaches with views of the sea. On the flip side, cars were new, shiny, and free of any of the negative connotation we see in them today (traffic, pollution, noise). Any infrastructure built to support them was fresh and efficient. It's no surprise that you'd have some people going all in on the latter. In hindsight, it turns out to be unfortunate that viewpoint won so thoroughly in the US.