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Paddy Lynch's avatar

There were in fact some modern architects attracted both to ideas of place and material craft as a form of collective poetics, both in France and Belgium in particular Ferdinand Pouillon who built in stone and wrote a somewhat eccentric book about medieval stone masons and hated Le Corbusier: and the Benedictine monk Dom Hans van Der Laan who also wrote, taught and built monasteries mostly. Both rejected statist modernism and embodied a kind of Weilian style scepticism and faith in practical wisdom I guess. One might argue it like that.

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Jimmy's avatar

this is beautiful

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