moderno

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"those of us who are most critical of modern life need modernism most"

marshall berman

now reading : bayley

"the very many awful modern buildings that scar the towns and the countryside are not awful because they are modern. they are awful because they are...awful. simply, bad architecture: badly briefed, poorly conceived, badly proportioned, poorly excecuted, badly maintained."

stephen bayley, general knowledge
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. . . > (welsh)(1951)(likes manchester)(and tom wolfe)

totally slummy

apart from climate change, there may be no more pressing challenge to planetary health and security than the fate of slum dwellers.

john beardsley, a billion slum dwellers and counting