Modernism sometimes gets a bad wrap, being called soulless, elitist, or even barbaric. But gosh it can be awe-inspiring. These pics of Mies Van de Rohe’s Lafayette Park (in Detroit of all places) are from Dwell.
Lafayette was the first urban renewal project in the US and remains an intimate, dense community of differing scales within a suburban, yet shrinking, city.
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I don't like labelling people, but if I were a blog post, I'd be tagged something like this:
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So that's me, now for my story.
I started life growing up in rural Australia as the third of five boys. For the first 18 years of my life, I knew I wanted to be an architect. I would spend free time drawing house plans and reading architecture books. But when I finished school and started to study architecture at university, I had one horrible realisation: architecture is not the career for me.
So I quit the degree and talked my way into a PA role, which had the unforseen side-affect of giving me a taste of the business world. Six years later I graduated from a business degree and have been working in Human Resources in the media industry ever since.
So here I am. On New Years Eve 2009 I made a resolution to find my artistic aesthetic. So I started culturepublic. The idea is that I'll post for a year and then look at my tag cloud to see what I'm most interested in.
So thanks for being part of my journey.
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Modernism sometimes gets a bad wrap, being called soulless, elitist, or even barbaric. But gosh it can be awe-inspiring. These pics of Mies Van de Rohe’s Lafayette Park (in Detroit of all places) are from Dwell.
Viktor Pikabia
July 1, 2011 at 1:28 am
Its inspiring. i should travel to Detroit! Im not sure if living or working in a modernistic building is good but at least the building looks great! Well i know the way a building looks should not be the main point but its a starting point. Everybody is criticising public buildings but what about the millions of private houses looking nearly the same?