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Why does much 'avant-garde' design these days look straight out of the Sixties?
2006.04.01 11:30
What's wrong with Reenactionary Architecturism? Nothing as far as I'm concerned.
I like the question, "What would radical be exactly?" because it's kind of indicative of how rare radicalism in architecture really is, but I will provide an example, nonetheless: discovering that Piranesi's Ichnographia of Il Campo Marzio exists in two versions and proving that what Tafuri, Bloomer, Allen and Eisenman write and say about Piranesi's Ichnographia is utter bullshit.
radical
2. Departing markedly from the usual or customary; extreme
3. Favoring or effecting fundamental or revolutionary changes in current practices, conditions, or institutions
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