Graffitists and modern architects alike are screaming into the void of mass culture. The post The Age of the Ego appeared first on The American Conservative .
Culture Culture The Age of the Ego Graffitists and modern architects alike are screaming into the void of mass culture. Photo by Romain Doucelin/NurPhoto via Getty Images Once more on my way from the center of Paris to the airport, I marvelled at the sheer hideousness of almost everything built since the end of the Second World War, the precise time when France was becoming richer than it had ever been. There must be a lesson here somewhere, but I don’t know what it is. Also remarkable, though not pleasing, was the sheer scale of the spray-painted tagging of practically…Open
Photo Credit:Kollner, Augustus, 1813-1906, artist, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Public Domain By Lars Møller Classical order, national identity, and the modernist assault on Washington.
The Barbican, a once divisive housing complex in central London, is now considered an architectural masterpiece. Residents are fighting plans for a 20-story building next door.
Photo Credit:Giuseppe Canella, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Public Domain By Lars Møller Along with architectural historian Vincent Scully (Yale) and urban theorist Colin Rowe (Cornell), the European architect and theorist Leon Krier is widely recognized as a foundational intellectual inspiration behind the American New Urbanism movement.
Too much disorder makes life a hell—but what of too much order? The post Perfection’s Prison appeared first on The American Conservative .
Culture Perfection’s Prison Too much disorder makes life a hell—but what of too much order? My computer’s wallpaper shot, the picture that comes up whenever I turn the computer, changes regularly, at whose or what’s instigation I know not, but certainly not at mine. I suppose that it—or is it they?—must have some inkling of my taste, for never does anything visually offensive to me appear. Recently, a panoramic view of the Bavarian town of Rothenburg ob der Tauber came up. The town was picture-perfect: not a parked car in sight, nor (come to think of it) any human being, human beings being so messy. At first I took the…Open
“As important as the boys and the pools and the light,” a memoirist writes, “the most important thing was becoming the driving.” It would inspire an obsession with moving focus into the future.
Photo Credit:Herbert Lees, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Public Domain Roger Scruton’s defense of beauty and home against the modernist assault.
