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post #1726 of 1731

5/20/13 at 10:27pm

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You may get a laugh out of this if you have not seen it already.

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Le_Corbusier

In a very broad stroke of an opinion, many of the early modernists seemed to do their most useable work prior to the work that most accurately represented their ideals. The modern architects that followed seemed to take this into their work applying a more human approach.

For instance in the case of Mies Van Der Rohe, I very much enjoy Haus Esters and Haus Lange. While Farnsworth house is a purer example of his ideals, it seems just a bit too distilled for my taste. I also like Tagendhat but find it difficult to compare a large villa with a weekend home like Farnsworth.
Edited by SkinnyGoomba - Yesterday at 6:21 am

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5/21/13 at 1:39am

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Quote:

Originally Posted by StephenHero

Le Corbusier is almost universally rejected for his prescriptive ideas of urbanism. His list of enemies begins with all the people who opposed his idea to tear down Paris and replace it with this, and it continues with the people who find many of his buildings to be inhumane, cold, aggresively utopian, plasticized, etc. In the postwar years, his housing prototypes were the default concept for most public housing in the U.S. and Europe, and they've been utter failures. His influence has also helped to destroy the skilled carpentry profession. He was undeniably a great genius and built some outstanding buildings, but he was also an aesthetic tyrant and a monster of unparalleled scale. The line of demarcation between his heralded work and his rejected work is almost perfectly placed between his single use buildings (good to great) and his master-planned and mixed-use schemes (awful to criminal).