Tomas Pueyo at Uncharted Territories:
All buildings everywhere are the same—the International Style.
Towers of concrete, steel and glass. We mourn for the traditional architectures of yesteryear, without realizing why.
Why are these buildings the same everywhere?
And why were they so different before? Is it just a matter of globalization, or is there something more?
Here’s a little known fact: A lot of the world’s architecture was the consequence of geography.
More here.
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