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Originally Posted by LostInTheZone
see, as you might gather, I have a genuine appreciation for good modern architecture. The movement produced some truly great buildings and had a lot of ideas that were worth adding to the architectural vocabulary. The thing is though, statements like this are infuriating to people who don't like modernism, and the modernist crowd tends to think a bit too highly of itself a little too often.
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Touche. This modernist can admit to being wrong technically, but I guess I was referring more specifically to the Bauhaus as being the first to consider the emerging car culture, and react to it. But yes, I guess there have been MANY buildings that have spanned a road, but they were originally not spanning roads per se... and our argument spirals into a semantic game after this. We could argue it to death. I totally see your point, and agree that Modernism does come with a certain intrinsic "confidence" for better or more likely worse.