The Barbican is one of the UK's most controversial collections of buildings, a massive concrete city within a city, squatting in an area of London flattened during World War II. BBC | Previous 1 | 2 | 3
I particularly liked their description of modernism:
"The theory of modernism was more powerful that the practical result. The theory was superb but a lot of it was politically motivated by communists. Socialist theory said this would be great architecture and this is how people will live. Rarely do these master plans ever work."
and
"The architects [of the era] were so arrogant, they just wanted to get in the architecture glossies. It is all for other architects to look at. It is a backslapping society."
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I particularly liked their description of modernism:
"The theory of modernism was more powerful that the practical result. The theory was superb but a lot of it was politically motivated by communists. Socialist theory said this would be great architecture and this is how people will live. Rarely do these master plans ever work."
and
"The architects [of the era] were so arrogant, they just wanted to get in the architecture glossies. It is all for other architects to look at. It is a backslapping society."
were?
Good point.
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