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Old January 5th, 2015 #189
Alex Linder
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Jones, Living Machines, Ch. 12

http://www.vanguardnewsnetwork.com/M...es-LM-Ch12.mp3

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- chapter 12, second to last section, covering harvard business school traditional georgian architecture vs bauhaus Graduate School of Design. the misery of book "pods" bs traditional stacks. forced to relocate to basement and put in expensive windows. concrete benches under pointless ramps, benches no one will sit on. the concept of Bodenstaendigkeit (groundedness, stability) in archicture of a nice private home with grounds rather than floating in space in a high-rise dormitory. most aryans like privacy and space, not that floating, divorced, impersonal-but-crammed feeling of a wohnberg, or apartment mountain made of prison-like cells. also, the ideology of the flat roof vs the steeple. what the socialist planner wants vs what actual people want - the married man with family vs the bauhaus dorm designer; the librarian and students vs the bauhaus library designer. big glass boxes with no privacy - when they lack it, people will make their own privacy as best they can. concept of "no future" applies to socialist planning because the man has been removed. He has his head cut off - the socialist planner, in the west called the expert, knows best - he will do all the thinking, you will do all the obeying. just go get drunk and fuck, everything is taken care of. men become gerbils in a bauhaus acquarium.

- bauhaus is ideology - claims to function in the name of the people and their interests but results in structures and spaces they hate and won't use or must reconfigure. bauhaus socialistically forces people together in library or workspace, freezing/boiling them in glass boxes, and subjecting them to all kinds of noise. they have to create the privacy and quiet they need for study or work on their own, even though the bauhauslers are paid millions to design these buildings. bauhaus springs from contempt for traditional forms. it is perversion/architecture, just as atonality is perversion/music and non-representational art is perversion/painting.

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