Salingaros sobre o Modernismo

Meu amigo virtual de pouco contato, o prolífico matemático grego Nikos Salingaros, colaborador da Dicta&Contradicta impressa, acaba de publicar em co-autoria com Mark A. Signorelli um artigo na New English Review, acessível online: The Tyranny of Artistic Modernism. Vale conferir imediatamente. Tendo a desconfiar das críticas imoderadas, mas a observação de Salingaros/Signorelli de que “all artistic creation is…

It’s gobbledygook

Would you really compare an education in modernist architecture to a cult indoctrination? Nikos Salingaros: Yes. The groundwork was laid out brilliantly by both Frank Lloyd Wright and by Gropius. They studied cult techniques in order to use them to promote their sort of architectural education. The Bauhaus was a hotbed of cultish affinity. There…