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I think one of the reasons architects have such little regard for the average pedestrian's urban/architectural experience is because they can't fathome their role as being anything but sculptors. Architecture schools brainwash them into believing they are the interpreters (in built form) of our time's zeitgeist, a relic of German Nineteenth century Romanticism. Therefore they (modernists) think nothing of trashing all presedence before modernism and the latest architectural fashion magazines at the expense of the pedestrian/user. That's not to say modernism can't produce a humane building, but it's a lot more difficult when the founding documents are so antithetical humanity and so in raptured to the latest technological gizzmo.

by Thayer-D on Nov 21, 2008 11:01 am • link • report

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