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Article: Centre on artistic man: relax.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
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- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2003
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SIR: With my February 2003 issue lost to the local postal system, I have only just seen Charles Jencks' New Paradigm article. There is something new going on, but it is not right to say the new stuff is better than the 'boring incessant repetition' of the old. Just as soon as the world is full of twisty stiff pseudo-nature, the Casa del Fascio will appear and dazzle us like we are apemen. The new work can be placed between partitions, but in the spirit of Chaos theory it all iterates from simple base rules. Architecture is a resolution of reason-rationality and emotion-artistry, in Classicism the rhythm of the Orders versus the material and carving of them, but in the ...