Category Archives: Architecture & Urbanism

Architecture In Uniform talk by Jean-Louis Cohen at NYPL

On February 29, 2012, Professor Jean-Louis Cohen gave a public talk on his new book, Architecture in Uniform: Designing and Building for WWII, at the Mid-Manhattan branch of the New York Public Library. Cohen began research for Architecture in Uniform—a … Continue reading

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Owen Hatherley’s Militant Modernism

The Modernist[1] design aesthetic is so tightly woven into our Ikea-furnished everyday lives that it is rather easy to forget its origins as an attempted movement toward a Utopian fantasy of the built environment. In visual contrast to many proto-Modern … Continue reading

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