Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.
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I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.
And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.
I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist?
Modernism is typically defined as the condition that begins when people realize God is truly dead, and we are therefore on our own.
The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture.
Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.
If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be a matter of cultural preference, or political power, and the power already available to modernists ideologies would be overwhelming.
The whole Modernist lie is that art is about the artist.
I haven't changed my mind about modernism from the first day I ever did it... It means integrity; it means honesty; it means the absence of sentimentality and the absence of nostalgia; it means simplicity; it means clarity. That's what modernism means to me.
There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.
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