Minor nitpick: > > Alas, by that point modernist meddlers were too far gone down the > road of arrogant sureness -- so full of their own certainty of what > was right that they were incapable of even tweaking or adjusting > their plans under intelligent criticism. Le Corbusier in Brasilia > and ___ in New York City showed how far architectural pomposity and > insolence had gone. Human occupants were no longer even consulted > over their needs, but simply told what those needs were. > Brasilia was planned in about 1955, not in the 60s. By 1960 [or so] it was already finished, and gov.br was moving there - a movement that made it quite easy to have it deposed and replaced by a military dictatorship on 1964-04-01 [aka "The Democratic Revolution of 1964-03-31" :-)]
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