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more about cities

Posted on October 30, 2015 by twotreatises

(both of these from archinect.com) “Cities can’t win. When they do well, people resent them as citadels of inequality; when they do badly, they are cesspools of hopelessness….Cities are the contradictions of capitalism, spelled out in crowds. They are engines … Continue reading →

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monuments and palm trees

Posted on October 14, 2015 by twotreatises

In Learning from Las Vegas, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown’s 1968 study and revindication of American commercial vernacular architecture, the architects claimed, for that oft-maligned landscape, a new monumentality. The Las Vegas Strip, the gas station, and the billboard … Continue reading →

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Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies

Posted on May 25, 2007 by twotreatises

Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies (1971) by Reyner Banham Anybody who has ever lived in Los Angeles for any period of time or found anything worthwhile about the city should read this book. Foreigners to this city tend … Continue reading →

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