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“Not architecture alone but all technology is, at certain stages, evidence of a collective dream.”

>> No.17208670
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>>17208608
bros, whatever I read seems like some obvious shit that everyone knows

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>>17208608
Here's to the boundless imagination of the modern man, our capacity to dream bold dreams!

>> No.17208754

>>17208691
Worse case Ontario.

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>>17208754
I like it as a pun. But Toronto is the worst city I've ever been in, since it's all the mid-70s Canadian corporate architecture and now Vancouver-style glass-condos-for-absentee-Asians without any of the Twin Peaks weirdness and historical buildings that still remain in Winnipeg. ("The largest collection of heritage buildings in North America," according to Architectural Digest.) I won't even mention the inflation of housing and utilities costs in Ontario, or the concentration of domestic terrorism, etc.

>> No.17209001

>>17208670
Read harder works. The Passion According to G.H. is pretty much entirely one liners that I all but guarantee you won't think is obvious shit.

>> No.17209105

>>17209001
all lispector is obvious shit

>> No.17209110

>>17208670
Have you tried reading my diary (desu)?

>> No.17209139

>>17208691
Believe it or not there was a time when these buildings inspired people. Now it's hard to see them as anything other than a degradation on what cities naturally ought to look like, as the unique culmination of one society instead of a metal box whose entire raison d’être is productivity.

>> No.17209299

>>17209001
I read stuff by Thomas Mann, Pessoa and Musil (literature-wise), will I be impressed by Lispector?