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French urban planners didn't accept his plans and individual building owners got to choose his design or not. If you think there's any single person to blame,
by makeitdouble 3y ago
French urban planners didn't accept his plans and individual building owners got to choose his design or not.
If you think there's any single person to blame, it's whoever blindly applied his ideas where it didn't belong.
I believe we're better off with a variety of ideas, it's then up to each city to make the best of it.
- nologic01 3y agoModern architecture desperately wanted to become as respected and admired as the revolutuon in visual arts. Which it achieved. But its role in society is far more important than art. Its the permanent backdrop in which we experience life. Its the shape of the petri dish on which our colony grows. Architects should be more psychologists, social scientists and economists than visual artists.