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“When classical architecture was revived during the Renaissance, every educated person knew that it symbolised admiration for the achievements of the ancient world. Architecture had become a metaphor for civilisation.”
― City as Landscape: A Post Post-Modern View of Design and Planning
― City as Landscape: A Post Post-Modern View of Design and Planning
“He had broken the bank by making a reservation at a place in Islamorada for their first night called the Moorings Village Lodge, which was the real-life location of the so-called Rayburn House, Sissy Spacek’s cottage hotel in the Netflix show Bloodlines. He was undeterred by the $1,600 price because he loved the show and figured he could probably make up for it by staying at much cheaper places for the rest of their nights in Key West.”
― Palm Beach Schemers
― Palm Beach Schemers
“The Modern Movement, demanding a new architecture for a new age, swept away these ‘styles’. That new architecture was supposed to be metaphor-free. Puzzled viewers soon began to invent their own metaphors. They spoke of cardboard boxes, matchboxes and filing cabinets. Despite designers’ outraged protestations, these boxy buildings were metaphors and had meaning. The messages they carried were ‘modernity’ and ‘functionalism’.”
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