Modernist Brutalism was architecture's own Hungerplan East, West, North and South.
A plan to eliminate worldwide all those oddball little gargoyles and spandrels that cluttered up the seamless streamlined moderne eugenic vision of simple, certain, eternal perfection.
There was to be no place for the oddball and the handicapped on this Voyage into the Future : on either humanity itself or on its material culture...
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Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
October 1940 closing of the New York World's Fair & 'The World of Yesterday'
One can only imagine that after reading about or witnessing the exuberant optimism still omnipresent at the October 27th 1940 closing of the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair, many mommies and daddies apparently went straight to bed ... and made babies.
Lots and lots of babies.
How else to account for the world's near simultaneous Boom in Baby births a few months later in 1941---- this, after a decade of steady decline ?
Lots and lots of babies.
How else to account for the world's near simultaneous Boom in Baby births a few months later in 1941---- this, after a decade of steady decline ?
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