We can mention the Greeks, we have heard about them a lot thorough the lecture series. Or the Hungarian Architect Goldfinger’s drawing of the modernist city image – the loneliest woman on the balcony…
Well, definitely Paul Pennyfeather’s story was a tragedy, and he didn’t even realise it himself. I quite enjoyed the book itself, poor guy falling into one problem to the other, falling in love, being blind and being a gentleman. Always.
I liked the part when he was in prison, and after the first 4 weeks of cellular labour he asked for more, because he like the piece and quite…
Similar to Corbusier’s story we got here the sarcastic always-negative Otto Silenus, logical and rational, but so unhappy and unsatisfied with himself.
What curbusier said arriving to NYC was that “ Skyscrapers are too small and too close to each other” so he created the Paris plan which is logical and reasonable.
And how tragic is the last image which we were shown on the lecture, that he lived in a tiny cabin next to a restaurant near to the end of his life. Not in a penthouse, no, he was sitting on a turnover wine case-such a poetic vision.
Decline And Fall by Evelyn Waugh
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