Last edited by formby (2010-09-25 16:11:21)

I still see ugly modernist monstrosities being built in the Hague at present. And the Hague is an interesting city from the perspective of being a Medieval city that has been destroyed by planners and lacks any real Medieval character, in the way, say Chester and York are in Blighty. There's plenty of towns and cities in the Netherlands and Belgium that have managed to keep their character though. 

Of course, you had the likes of Frank Lloyd Wright working at the same time as Le Corbusier, but coming with something much more appealing and often integrated with nature, the suburbs and humanity.  Its the old countryside vs the city battle that's been going on for quite sometime.

The secret to being a successful modernist in the Ivy and Mod sense, is to be urbane rather than urban. Which takes me back to my vision of the Lighthouse club, Laguna beach, 1955, that unique West Coast heroin-tinged optimism clothed in East Coast jackets, ties and shirts. That Contemporary record with Hampton Hawes, Barney Kessel, Shelly Manne and the beautiful curvaceous lady in the swimsuit on the cover. By 1970 it was all gone, the boon years vanquished, the baby boomers at the helm of popular culture driving us head long into this shallow and pessimistic present.

Yet not, funnily enough, others.

Bump.

Hung over?

I rather like your style, old chap.