#arh273

Theodor Adorno, “Refuge for the Homeless”

Rotifer's tribute to Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, visualized as a combination of live footage and animated drawings by the artist himself. Direction: Lelo Brossmann ©…

Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Why I Became an Architect

Principles of organic architecture

the inclusion of traditional features in the colonial architecture was about putting on a show. "supposed cultural tolerance" sums it up well, it was "artificial expressions of mutual engagement and benefits" the indigenous styles for official buildings was meant to show a shift in power that wasn't actually happening the architecture was used to placate locals using architecture to display political power, and also to gain it substitution of "visual decentralization" for actual political change

A good summary of what I was trying to point out / note with the last post. The big thing is the "dual urban agenda." (I want to add the # to other posts but not sure how...)

synthesis of modernity and tradition -> can it really be done without "freezing" local progress local tradition and culture as the "quaint" "kitchy" and functioning as a tourist attraction difference between synthesis and isolation