#Modernist

෴ ❝Lychee❞ Cola ෴

lycheecola

Argentina really has some consistently fantastic architecture. Even this meat processing plant at the edge of a small farming town gets the modernist touch. Modernist architectural detail and some very

Jake Anbinder

JakeAnbinder

This was the argument Oscar Newman put forward in "Defensible Space" in the '70s, and it remains influential, but I don't think it's the consensus among urban historians anymorehttps://twitter.com/mtsw/status/134671187

Conversation Of Our Generation

ConOfOurGen

There's a difference between modern and modernist. Architecture can be innovative, building on tradition instead of rejecting it. Part of my discussion with @FRANKCUNHAIIIModern Architecture Can Embrace and Build on

Angus McNeill Peel

AMcNeillPeel

The wave of modernist federal buildings in the United States built between the 1950s and 1970s represented meaningful policy making, accountability, transparency and a widening reach of federal agencies tasked

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olagjean

What was absolutely staggering about modernist utopians in the past century, and hard to comprehend for a contemporary observer is the religious zeal, buttressed by a relentless and unyielding optimism,

Laura Robinson

LauraRbnsn

One of my favorite things about reading female mystic writers is how convinced they are of God’s intense interest in people- not as a bloc or a theological category like

against utopia 🏴🟢

againstutopia

I've posted about pixar's storytelling before, and I find the story behind their latest film, Soul, to be fascinatingSoul in my view is an anti-anti-natalist fable, but even more interesting

Xena Worrier Princess

marianbull

thread of things i like on etsy but cannot buy beaded tissue box shaped like a sofa, $99 https://www.etsy.com/listing/503741729/sofa-tissue-box?ref=user_profile this incredible rug, very gay. $199 https://www.etsy.com/listing/842191943/21-x

Rachael Nisbet

rachael_nisbet

FIVE DOLLS FOR AN AUGUST MOON (Bava, 1970)Production Design: Giuseppe AldrovandiSet Decoration: Giulia MafaiA modernist seaside villa sets the stage for the bourgeois pursuits of its inhabitants. White walls, open

Andy Miller

i_am_mill_i_am

I read 203 books in 2020. These were my favourites. I have chosen the ones that spoke to me most clearly or usefully during that rotten year. I know many

JT Welsch

jtwelsch

Happy birthday, Maurice Darantiere! Joyce folks are rightly grateful for the heroic work he did printing Ulysses from Joyce’s messy drafts & proofs, but Darantiere did a lot more than

Putanumonit Jacob

yashkaf

Hypothesis: late-modernist progressivish neoliberalism a la Obama is actually the best philosophy of governance possible today. Anything better for the population will be rejected, anything more popular will be worse.

Joshua Hershey

Hershey271

I thought I would never tweet about Brian Zahnd again. But because of the recent brouhaha I thought I would do a little thread about his sophistry when it comes

Library School Dropout

chi_geek

Here’s a thread of what I saw on a walk thru Evanston. Located right on Lake Michigan, this home was designed by architects Booth, Nagle & Hartray in 1977-78 for

mattparlmer 🌷

mattparlmer

The optimal level of crime in cities is not zero. If you don't have drunk people doing stupid things or the occasional drug dealer slinging contraband, you probably live somewhere

akhivae

akhivae

Religious/conservative people in a modern first world society are extremely different, psychologically speaking, from people in traditional societies. Many do not realize this because they have never seen how a

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