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Kevin Matthews
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Kevin
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 Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 8:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Would you agree that "Architecture's communicative function was disregarded throughout the first half of the twentieth century"? |
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celento
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| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 11:35 am Post subject: |
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No.
Communication through built form is impossible to avoid. However, the message that was sent in the early to mid 20th century was one quite different than the one being sent previously.
Was communication less friendly, more idiomatic, and incomprehensible to a large number of people? Quite possibly. |
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mx2
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Location: Miami, Florida
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| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 11:47 am Post subject: |
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One year later...an interesting question indeed.
I agree celento. I imagine that part of the two-way street of communication also entails that people (general public) were engaged in simpler and more familiar things, particularly in the local sense. Now with the age of information that has saturated every nook of the earth with "global" ideas, it's as if we have resurrected and expanded the tower of babel...we simply have so many ideas and so many voices and very few audiences that actually listen...except at our local levels. Ironic that we seem to be coming full circle. What of this Global Village...? Is it just theory?
mx2
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