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Peter Eisenman : "Liberal Views Have Never Built Anything of any Value."
Rita Novel 2004.07.31 10:36
Thinking about what architectures these day are really political, I wouldn't count Peter Eisenman's among them. What I would count are "the great wall of Israel," US military bases all over the globe, any secured border checkpoints, architectures like that. Was the USSR the last great political architecture of the 20th century? Could be. And how does Communist Chinese architecture stand up these days?
John Young's eyeball series at www.cryptome.org is at the head of the class when it comes to scoping super-power architectures.
I like Eisenman for often letting me know what he does not know.
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