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Gods of the Copybook Headings (Free subscription) | yesterday
The good doctor advises: Le Corbusier was to architecture what Pol Pot was to social reform. In one sense, he had less excuse for his activities than Pol Pot: for unlike the Cambodian, he possessed great talent, even genius. Unfortunately,...
Ghost of a flea (Free subscription) | yesterday
Theodore Dalrymple claims Le Corbusier was to architecture what Pol Pot was to social reform,...
Maggie's Farm (Free subscription) | yesterday
I give thanks to God today (and every day) for being a free American - and for being free to read, write, and report whatever I want to here on Maggie's Farm. I am grateful to our Founding Fathers, for our Constitution, for all of the past and present men at arms who defend our freedoms. I have a shoot today, then family dinner this evening in MA. A grouse and woodcock hunt on Friday in the lowlands,...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
CHANDIGARH: The Chandigarh-Punjab chapter of the Indian Institute of Architects (IIA) in association with Goethe Zentrum Max Mueller Bhavan on Tuesday unveiled “Horizontal City! Vertical Village — Living with Le Corbusier in ...
Abduzeedo by design - (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
He was a truck driver and boxer, he taught himself architecture as he didn't like school and preferred to study his way, visiting and analyzing the works. Tadao Ando has consolidated his name by performing an architecture that's pure, allowing the user to experience space and nature in his works. <!--break--> Tadao Ando was born in Osaka, Japan, on September 13, 1941 and was raised by his grandmother....
Inside Out blog (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Some of the world's most famous design brands (which often also grace the pages of Inside Out ) will be available at Corporate Culture from January 2010. The company will carry Cassina, Poltrona Frau, Alias and Cappellini ; these brands feature the work of designers such as Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand , Frank Lloyd Wright, Marc Newson and Tom Dixon. A definite mental note for designers, decorators...
西儒 ─ The Western Confucian (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Theodore Dalrymple on the man who "was to architecture what Pol Pot was to social reform" — Architect as Totalitarian . "By their very presence, the raw-concrete-clad rectangular towers that obsessed him canceled out centuries of architecture." Subscribe in a reader
monochrom (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Historians of Modern Architecture have cultivated the image of the architect as a temperamental genius, unconcerned by issues of politeness or pragmatics—a reading reinforced in cultural representations of Modern Architects, such as Howard Roark, the protagonist in Ayn Rand's 1943 novel The Fountainhead (a character widely believed to be based on the architect Frank Lloyd Wright). The perception...
THE GOLDEN SMITH (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Its fascinating that Le Corbusier was a modernist zealot, well, on paper, at the start... but seemed to just contradict all of that tight modernism with a whole lot of primitive, Picasso-esque, suspiciously colourful, decorative paintings - which I think is very balanced, in truth. "Je suis un acrobate de la forme", he reckoned. And I dont know if his famous l ittle cabanon was all that functional,...
Execupundit.com (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Theodore Dalrymple discusses the architect as totalitarian : At the exhibition, I fell to talking with two elegantly coiffed ladies of the kind who spend their afternoons in exhibitions. “Marvelous, don’t you think?” one said to me, to which I replied: “Monstrous.” Both opened their eyes wide, as if I had denied Allah’s existence in Mecca. If most architects revered...
greg.org: the making of (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Wow, who tore up Theodore Dalrymple's urban fabric and replaced it with a tower in a garden? If there were no conservative polemic blogs for cranky, reactionary modernism haters, I'm sure the Manhattan Institute would've invented them. Oy. The Architect...
Times of India (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
“You don’t need to travel to the Acropolis. You have everything here.” These were the words of the legendary architect Le Corbusier in praise of Ahmedabad.
Archinect (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
The City Journal's Theodore Dalrymple says "Le Corbusier was to architecture what Pol Pot was to social reform."
Fredösphere (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
This latest in a long line of denunciations of Le Corbusier , written by my favorite atheistic pessimist, Theodore Dalrymple, is a little too heavy on assertion, I agree. If you already have an opinion of Le Corbu's buildings, words like "monstrous" and "ugly" won't change it. I did find one fresh insight, however, and it's the kind that seems obvious in retrospect—which is...
THE CITY PROJECT (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
As far as the urbanist blogosphere is concerned, the 'networked city' made possible by the iPhone and its applications is the only thing worth talking about. The street as platform ... The kind of program a city is ... This is where the urban buzz is right now. And this is a plea for moderation. Look, I know futurology is shiny and exciting, but let's put this in context. Research from Nielsen shows...
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sonupt5@gmail.com | 10/12/2009
Chandigarh Police Constables Recruitment Results 2009 At www.chandigarhpolice.com Chandigarh Police has been playing a key role in keeping the city Beautiful-Chandigarh a role model city as was dreamt by its planner Le-Corbusier. Though he planned the city for only 5,00,000 people, but today its population has crossed those limits but the police force remains lesser in number. Read More From Orginal
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