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Post by cmarschner » Sat, Nov 13, 2021, 11:46 AM UTC

cmarschner wrote: post #200

TheOtherHobbes wrote: post #135

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It's worth reading the counterpoint - about reactionary "back to the past" architecture in the UK. https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/05/the-royal-dystopia-of... I went to visit Poundbury a few years ago and my reaction was "Seriously?!" It's just as ugly and soulless as the output of the concrete box school. Even the name shows a hilarious absence of self-awareness. The fact that these supposed extremes somehow man…

Very worth reading indeed. Sigh. That makes me even more sad. I had high hopes of Poundbury, and reading that Krier, who has published smart ideas about urban planning, was apologetic towards a super nazi like Speer (and he was, as a new documentary recently reveals) is not forgivable. It seems we only have a choice between the imperialist and aristocrats or the staleness of steel/glass/concrete. There must be a thir…

I must correct myself again: Here [1] is an interview with Krier, in German, which paints a very different pucture - that he is rather left-leaning, that he detested the political stream that Speer was part of, but that he was able to distinguish it from his works as city planner. I find that remarkable as it goes beyond what most people are able to. Also, some remarks on the constraints that Dorchester made on the development of Poundbury.

[1] https://www.welt.de/kultur/kunst-und-architektur/article1540...