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Daily Archives: October 18, 2008
“Fences Make Good Neighbors”: A Painting of a Meadow with a Fence Running Through It (1875)
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Tagged art, ecology, fences, John Muir, meadows, nature, painting, Robert Frost, thoreau
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Form Follows Whose Function?: Reflections on Brasilia and the Career of Architect Oscar Niemeyer
The career of Oscar Niemeyer (the architect who almost singlehandedly designed all of Brasilia) is discussed in a fascinating Atlantic article titled, A Vision in Concrete (July/August 2008). It opens thus: It was a heroic and inhuman scheme. From 1956 to … Continue reading
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Tagged albert speer, architecture, art, authoritarian, Ayn Rand, brasilia, brazil, China, howard roark, modernism, oscar niemeyer, The Fountainhead
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