A solemn trust.It's not that Browser is institutionally opposed to reactionary sites, well it is a bit, it is just that having whinged for all those years about people who hated modern architecture you discover the boot is on the other foot and it's dear old Quinlan Terry Quinlan Terry (born 24 July, 1937 in Hampstead) is an English architect. He was educated at Bryanston School and the Architectural Association. He was a pupil of architect Raymond Erith, with whom he formed the partnership Erith & Terry. and the younger Robert Adam Noun 1. Robert Adam - Scottish architect who designed many public buildings in England and Scotland (1728-1792) Adam (no not a ghostly visitation but the unrelated bloke down at Winchester) who are whingeing about everybody being unappreciative of their essays in classical styling. So for balance may I direct you to INTBAU INTBAU International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism at www.intbau.org, the International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture & Urbanism (Patron HRH HRH abbr. Her (or His) Royal Highness HRH Her (or His) Royal Highness HRH abbr (= His (or Her) Royal Highness) → S.A.R. Prince Charles Noun 1. Prince Charles - the eldest son of Elizabeth II and heir to the English throne (born in 1948) Charles ). Ignoring the content for a moment, this is a nicely simple and easily navigated site with all the major headings down the conventional and easily read left side and lots of hyperlinks--though you might wish for a lot less text and even more such links. Whatever, there is this Californian, Charles Segal, with an essay (Essay 9) which reads, at first, quite reasonably and then the boot starts its arc: 'Modernist housing projects ... vertical slums ... blighted neighborhoods, and revolts by local citizens.' I so liked that bit about revolting local citizens that I read on--only to be disappointed to find that, among the yadda yadda, Segal is under the quaint impression that PoMo is still in the ascendancy. Still being behind the times is, sort-of, on message. His The Preservation Institute site is at www.preservenet.com. It asks readers for additions to its bibliography: I was going to offer Mein Kampf Mein Kampf Adolf Hitler’s autobiography, including his theories on treatment of the Jews. [Ger. Hist.: Mein Kampf] See : Anti-Semitism but, although I argued passionately that Neo-vernacular was National Socialism's favourite housing style, my editor told me not to be so silly. |
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