The Mayor of London has just unveiled new artwork (via Twitter) by David Hockney, which consists of a Microsoft Paint redesign of the Piccadilly Circus underground station signage and features in the digital advertisement displays. Sadiq Khan describes the image in his tweet as “brilliant work” and “the first in a series of major art projects we’ve commissioned”, indicating … [Read more...] about Memeification of the Metro
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Modernist mythologies 2
What, exactly, is modern architecture? The first thing to be understood is that the name itself is a lie. It isn’t remotely modern. According to an interesting American academic paper, the Mental Disorders which gave us Modern Architecture (Sussman/Chen), Modernism arose out of the trauma of the First World War. It presented as a strain of such neuropsychiatric conditions as … [Read more...] about Modernist mythologies 2