Myths of Modernism

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How Sukarno’s Games of the New Emerging Forces Briefly Modeled a Vision for a Postcolonial World

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“Trads Are Modernists and We’re the Real Trads”: Dismantling the Traditional Architecture Movement

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Accra’s International Trade Fair Embodies Ghana’s Complex Legacy of Pan-African Modernism

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Italy’s “Countryside” Does Not Need Saving

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OMA Uses Brutalist Aesthetics to “Greywash” the Luxury High Rise

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How The Urban Eclipsed the City: An Interview with Ross Exo Adams

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A Decade of Failed Architecture

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The Far Right’s Obsession with Modern Architecture

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From Mies to Bjarke: Ten Moments in the Manly History of the Architect’s Model

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Dredging the Dutch City, Part 3: Utrecht

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Memories, Steel and Concrete: The Wire’s Season 3 Opener

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Reinier de Graaf: “Architecture Is in a State of Denial”

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Is it Really Brutalist Architecture in Blade Runner 2049?

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Ultraviolence in Representation: The Enduring Myth of the Thamesmead Estate

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Singapore’s Metabolist Megastructures: The Asian City of Tomorrow?

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The Tragedy of De Certeau’s Godlike Voyeur ft. Jamie Foxx

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A Failure Upon Completion, Heidelberg’s ‘Concrete Ghetto’ Still Stands 45 Years On

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Photo Essay: The Grey City – Aberdeen’s Mundane Side

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The Grenfell Disaster Shows that Architecture Is Always Political

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Lost Forever: Amsterdam’s Shell Terrain Transformed

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‘Human, All Too Human’: A Critique on the Modulor

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Berlin Marzahn: Social Housing with Marquis Hawkes

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The Battle Over What Istanbul’s Iconic Bridge Means

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Komtar: Malaysia’s Monument to Failed Modernism

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The Forgotten Spaceships of the Po Valley

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The Future of Work: Amsterdam’s Vijzelbank

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Last Season: The Final Moments of the Four Seasons

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How Skopje’s Urban Makeover Alienated Locals

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Dredging the Dutch City, Part 2: Bijlmer

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Dredging the Dutch City, Part 1: Rotterdam

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FA Film: Orphan

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Richard Neutra’s Therapeutic Architecture

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Did Suburbia Fail?

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Photo Essay: The Lost Views of Space City

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San Cataldo Cemetery: Graveyard of Postmodern Architecture

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Walking the Decline: Sheffield’s Collectivist Architecture

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Erasing the Remnants of a Revolution

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Dawson’s Heights: South London Sublime

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A Town is a Machine for Movement: Alpine Modernism

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The Port Authority Bus Terminal: Myth, Mystery, Mess

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Concrete Experience: Bakema’s TrouwAmsterdam

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Le Corbusier’s Vision for Fascist Addis Ababa

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What is the Legacy of the Watergate Hotel?

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Photo Essay: The Ferrier Estate

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Insuring the City

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Tropical Babel

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A Year in the Metabolist Future of 1972

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A Memorial to the Highs and Lows of Social Housing

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The Sudden Death of Cambodia’s Homegrown Modernism

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Once a Colonial Hotel, Now an Inhabited Ruin

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Paradise Lost: Birmingham’s Central Library and the Battle over Brutalism

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Photo Essay: Tallinn’s Abandoned Linnahall

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Two Banks Shaping the African Skyline

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The Value of a War-Scarred Ruin in Beirut

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The Downfall of London’s Streets in the Sky

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Who Determines the Future of the Past?

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Brussels’ Administrative Centre: An Uncontrollable Urban Tumor?

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Photo Essay: Rapla KEK, Estonia

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Hotel Jugoslavija: Spatio-Temporal Mosaics of Memorabilia

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In the Glasgow Media the Death of a High Rise is Marketed as Progress

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Photo Essay: Hiroshima’s Motomachi

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There’s a Generation Shift Occurring in Our Assessment of Modernist Architecture

Saviour or Parasite?

A City Formerly Known as Sadness – Tin Shui Wai

Is Failure Central to the Architectural Profession?

Why L.A. is Important

Bijlmer: a Reputation Blown to Smithereens?

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Documenting the Myths of Modernism

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Revisioning Amsterdam Bijlmermeer

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La Maison Tropicale: From Failure in Niamey to Masterpiece in NYC

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FA Workshop: Sofia’s National Palace of Culture

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School’s Out: A Modernist School Building Has to Go

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Back to the Future in Amsterdam’s Bijlmer Estate

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Kai van Hasselt Responds to Owen Hatherley

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An Artist’s Impression: Larissa Fassler on Berlin’s Kottbusser Tor

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Nottingham: ‘Early Martyr of Highway Engineering’

Nottigham: Lenton flats

Owen Hatherley in Defense of Post-War Planning

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FA Workshop: Rotterdam’s Zalmhaven

Excavating the Future in Cardross, Scotland

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Masterplan for the City of Skopje

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Moscow’s Narkomfin Building

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The Downfall of British Modernist Architecture

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Sanzhi UFO Houses, Taiwan

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