Kule, hyklerske modernister

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Spot on om hvor hyklerske modernistene er🙂 En tragedie at modernistene har tatt Hovdetoppen, Østhøgda og Furnesfjorden her i Mjøslandet. Mens stabburet til min oldefar her ute på tunet, som har 100-års jubileum til neste år, er det kun Mjøslandets tårefotograf som hyller.

- Modernism vs. modernism

But isn’t that precisely what we do when we revive historical styles? Isn’t that how architecture evolved for centuries until the rise of modernism?

Of course it is. If Scott Brown and Venturi had written a book explaining the obvious, they would be hated by the architectural establishment and their books would go unread today. No student in architecture school would ever have heard of them. But they would have been right. And maybe the design elites might have been moved an iota or two by a more sensible scholarly outlook erupting from the Brutalist battlements of Yale, and eventually, someday, won over. The world would be a much happier place, or at least much more beautiful. Oh well. - David Brussat

The longing for the golden ages of the past...