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POPSsources of modern architecture "Were the Impressionist masters therefore the first Modern architects? Some of Gauguin’s paintings I saw as well those of his contemporaries (Monet’s study Rouen cathedral) seem to suggest that they helped shape the preoccupation of architecture in the twentieth century. It was from the drive to create buildings as abstractions for abstraction’s sake, with little regard to nature that Modern architecture unpalatable to the general public."
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POPS"death, life, and libeskind" Saturday, February 04, 2006 Death, Life and Libeskind An essay by Brian Hanson and Nikos Salingaros. The architecture of Daniel Libeskind follows two distinct threads--the geometry employed in his Holocaust Memorials, and the geometry of those buildings whose purpose is life and regeneration. But is there a difference between the two types? And if not, does Libeskind's architecture make sense for the former site of the World Trade Center? posted by True Urbanism @ 10:44 AM