#Modernist

Some took issue with our demand for more beautiful streets & lived spaces.Yet, among others this Norwegian study from January 2020 found “most people don’t feel happy around modern architecture”.
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I don't care if you think Brutalism is ugly.It's not exactly a unique hot take to say that you think brutalism is not pretty, y'all It isn't supposed to be
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Some thoughts from yesterday. A thread: I have spent 23 years at The @nytimes, seven of them covering Congress. I made my home at a desk in the press gallery
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Is Ellen Page going to be an FtM transsexual? Or is she merely changing her pronouns to “he/him/they/them” b/c she was influenced by the TRA agenda & gender identity/NB ideology
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15/People say the media is biased, it can't be trusted, and that they push and agenda. Some people say we are in an age of "narrative warfare." Others say people
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1. Declan Walsh’s “The Nine Lives of Pakistan” distills the complexity of Pakistan in page turning prose. It isn’t intended as an academic work so at the risk of nit-picking
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Happy Black History Month everyone!!! By popular demand I’ll be posting informational tweets everyday this month so we can all celebrate our history and get educated together! Bookmark this tweet
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Roger Margerum (1931-2016)Between Chicago & Detroit[Thread] Roger Margerum was an important modernist in both Detroit and his native Chicago, part of a generation of pioneering Black architects in both cities.
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Today in pulp I'm looking at a rather splendid Modernist and Surrealist comic strip from 1904: Dream of the Rarebit Fiend! #FridayFeeling Dream of the Rarebit Fiend was written and illustrated
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Thread: The concept of the “generation gap” is a modern invention that has no solid basis in pre-20th century western culture, let alone any other culture.Differences exist between parents and
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A few notes on books read and liked by me this year-- Good Behaviour / Molly Keane – A intensely compressed family saga set among the decadent and inbred Anglo-Irish
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https://unevenearth.org/2019/07/redwashing-capital/"As Marxism has long observed... tech repeatedly drives itself into a ditch. Innovations score quick profits until the new fixed capital spreads, competition intensifies, and economic
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Modernists attacked the greatest devotion to Our Heavenly Mother; her Rosary. In 2002, Wotyla issued his "Rosarium Virginis Mariae.” The false pontiff overturned the traditional form of the Rosary as
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People are generally as "right wing," meaning taking their own side, as they are "allowed" to be. They need moral justification and physical safety. They receive neither right now from
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A little follow-up about the idea that denser urban environments need a much more careful design and how it can be achieved.Many years ago I visited "La Mina" neighborhood in
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Lots of excellent poetry books went unsung in 2020. Here are a few I think you might enjoy. Some of these were more 'seen' than others, but I am sure
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