"Modernism did its immense damage in these ways: by divorcing the practice of building from the history and traditional meanings of building; by promoting a species of urbanism that destroyed age-old social arrangements and, with them, urban life as a general proposition; and by creating a physical setting for man that failed to respect the limits of scale, growth, and the consumption of natural resources, or to respect the lives of other things."

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The Geography of Nowhere | James Howard Kunstler

While I love the freedom that the modern movement has given to me I often do not want to admit the harm it wrought on our cities.

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1) architecture is about experience 2) architecture does not require Architects 3) building photos are not architecture photos 4) external critique is always better than internal