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Professor Dan Cruickshank is an architectural historian and television presenter, currently working for the BBC..

"In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, high-tech architecture is, of course, no different in spirit -- if totally different in form -- from all the romantic architecture of the past."

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"By Modernism I mean the positive rejection of the past and the blind belief in the process of change, in novelty for its own sake, in the idea that progress through time equates with cultural progress; in the cult of individuality, originality and self-expression."

Cruickshank, Dan on modern and modernism    Share

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