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Prince Charles’ 10 “Geometric Principles” for Architecture Cause a Stir in the UK (with photos of Poundbury)
My own photograph of some geometric features,
Queen Mother Square
"The revolting phrase 'The Battle of the Styles,' wherein architecture is now considered a fighting ground between old gentlemen who imitate the Parthenon and brilliant young men who create abstract designs, can only have been coined by the stupid extremists of either side...There are new materials, a new social order, new proportions to be commanded, and the possibility of creating a new beauty which this generation must not be too stultified to see".
Date? Author?
(Sir) John Betjeman, The Death of Modernism, Architectural Review, December 1931.
Queen Mother Square
"The revolting phrase 'The Battle of the Styles,' wherein architecture is now considered a fighting ground between old gentlemen who imitate the Parthenon and brilliant young men who create abstract designs, can only have been coined by the stupid extremists of either side...There are new materials, a new social order, new proportions to be commanded, and the possibility of creating a new beauty which this generation must not be too stultified to see".
Date? Author?
(Sir) John Betjeman, The Death of Modernism, Architectural Review, December 1931.
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