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Article: L'homme vert: though environmental awareness is a recent phenomenon, it has deeper and perhaps surprising roots in the Modern Movement, especially in the work of Le Corbusier.(history)
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- The Architectural Review
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- February 1, 2008
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The agenda of the Modern Movement is commonly seen as intrinsically unsustainable--it promoted mass production and consumption, the motor car, rapid obsolescence, and the use of high-energy-content materials such as glass, steel and concrete. Especially in some of its wackier late manifestations such as Archigram it arguably did mostly that. But while the desire to embrace industrial methods of production, and the mass markets that that implied, was undoubtedly an important component of Modern Movement ideology, this was married--as Pevsner for one was insistent in pointing out--to an inheritance from the Arts and Crafts movement and its later planning manifestation, the ...
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