Today, there is a nostalgia for the abstractions of Modernism that amounts to reducing it to a mere style among many others. That appears to be finely democratic with regard to offering choices, but it is a false choice if the abstractions resemble the old ones, which have by now become comfortable representations of a lost innocence. Abstraction, like democracy, is demanding of each of us—often discomfiting, and always difficult to attain.
in Lebbeus Woods. Wordpress.com
Lebbeus Woods, para quem ainda não sabe, é o homem que fazia estes desenhos e que, desde Maio de 2008, tem um Blog sobre arquitectura. Ou será sobre Política. Ou sobre ética. Obrigatório.
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