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Closing Le Corbusier’s Atlas

Posted on October 3, 2014 by cosmopolitanscum

If you are in Madrid or going there, you have the last chance to see one of my favourite exhibitions in a good number of years. Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes which I saw in New York just … Continue reading →

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Gillespie Kidd and Coia finally getting props

Posted on July 28, 2014 by cosmopolitanscum

This week sees the start of the Mountain Biking at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow: which will tickle the whiskers of very few of the readers of this blog, I realise. However, the event marks in many ways the final … Continue reading →

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Jane Drew: A Teller of Stories

Posted on February 27, 2014 by cosmopolitanscum

We know little of Jane Drew through her writing. Of course, she co-authored works on building in the tropics with her husband but these are generally technical in nature; part of the programme of international expertise that Drew was part … Continue reading →

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Postmodernism: It’s History

Posted on October 11, 2011 by cosmopolitanscum

It is entirely possible to love the current exhibition Postmodernism: Style and Subversion at the V&A and find in it a sign of why Post-Modernism is at a dead end.

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