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Talk the talk on buildings
An essay by Marianela D’Aprile, “What We Talk About When We Don’t Talk About Buildings,” on the website Common\Edge, gathers together some strands of discourse about architecture that I’ve posted on recently. Most particularly, I refer to a post called … Continue reading
Modern architecture is crazy
Among the most recent revelations of science in the service of architecture is that three of the most eminent founders of modern architecture suffered from mental illness. Le Corbusier was on the autism spectrum while Walter Gropius and Ludwig Mies … Continue reading
Even Soviets hated mods!
Ann Sussman, the architect/scientist whose neurobiological research has pinned down mental illness as a factor in modern architecture, sent me a video by a Russian cartoonist in 1976. It shows that even amid the official dominance of modernism under Stalin, … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Video
Tagged Animated Cartoons, Ann Sussman, Genetics of Design, Modern Architecture, Postmodern Architecture, Soviet Art
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Our eyes poke back at mods
A thrilling new report on how biometric technologies assess human taste in architecture was published yesterday on Common/Edge. As I’ve said before, good on C/E for running an essay, as it occasionally does, that refrains from trashing new traditional architecture, … Continue reading
Millais vs. Le Corbusier
Malcolm Millais, the author of Exploding the Myths of Modern Architecture, has written Le Corbusier, the Dishonest Architect, brought out in Britain by Cambridge Scholars Publishing, of Newcastle upon Tyne. It is a brave book and a necessary book, a … Continue reading
Old mods hard-wired to ugly
The two buildings above say all that needs to be said, really, about why traditional architecture is superior to modern architecture. Still, it is crucial to understand why modern architecture emerged in the first half of the last century, and … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture
Tagged Ann Sussman, Autism, Biometrics, Brain Disorders, Common/Edge, Katie Chen, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, PTSD, Walter Gropius
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Perils of architecture school
Common/Edge is a website about architecture. All of the essays are written well, but many seem to try to have it both ways about the battle over style in architecture. So I’m not quite sure how Prof. Nikos Salingaros managed … Continue reading
Classicism’s relevance today
The Boston Design Center in the city’s Innovation District hosted a panel today, as part of Boston Design Week, on the relevance of classicism in contemporary design. All five panelists agreed that yes, classicism is still relevant. Classicism has a … Continue reading
Sussman on Corbu’s autism
One reason people prefer traditional to modern architecture is that their eyes literally refuse to look at blank walls. Shown a picture of a building with a blank wall, the eye of an observer will linger anywhere – on a … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Books and Culture
Tagged Ann Sussman, Autism, Boston, Cognitive Architecture, Eye Tracking, ICAA, Le Corbusier, Modern Architecture, Neurobiology
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The eye, the mind, the heart
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so sayeth just about everyone, but how does the mind influence what the eye of the beholder sees? If the eye informs the brain and the brain informs the taste, then there … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art and design
Tagged Ann Sussman, Beauty, Cognitive Architecture, ICAA, ICAA New England Chapter, Taste
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