Comments on: For Your Saturday Reading

By: ELMalvaney

ELMalvaney — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:31:19 +0000

I don’t get any tongue-in-cheek or irony in the piece. I do remember being struck at an exhibition years ago when I didn’t really know much about architecture, seeing those plans for the high-rise city and thinking “who would design such a thing?” Although, like Tom Barnes, I like many Modernist buildings, to me it’s just a style, and I find the philosophy espoused by the gurus more disturbing than inspiring.

By: Tom Barnes

Tom Barnes — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:56:42 +0000

“Spiritual, intellectual and moral deformity.” Most interesting. While I do like a lot of modernist buildings, Le Corbusier has never been one of my faves.

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:56:04 +0000

Let’s hope that Theodore Dalrymple’s article is somewhat “tongue-in-cheek.” One would think that there were other totalitarian forces at work in the interbellum and postbellum years in Europe and the States, some with stronger architectural and political visions than Le Corb ever dreamed of!