regentbowerbird

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   by regentbowerbird 4y ago

   Apologies if it was unclear, I meant that Le Corbusier's projects together largely defined modernism, rather than just the Plan Voisin. The Plan was more or less a marketing scheme. It brought attention to the problems modernism was to
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   by regentbowerbird 4y ago

   I'm no expert in architecture history, but I don't think it is so obvious. Le Corbusier's projects such as the Cité Radieuse or the Plan Voisin, which largely defined modernism, seem to me to be quite clearly the starting poi
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   by regentbowerbird 4y ago

   > Brutalism is a 1950’s architectural trend that was abandoning all decorations, and creating brutally simple buildings made from concrete. They often weren’t even painted to emphasize their brutal nature. So big, brutal blocks of concre