^^^ Sounds like you need to take a trip to Milwaukee and check out the new neighborhoods around downtown. There are entire swaths of the city now that look like this:
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I highly encourage you to look at the rest of the pictures here, you'll like what you see:
http://milwaukeestreets.blogspot.com/
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Originally Posted by CGII
Really? I think you would certainly find yourself in the minority. Certainly a different brand of modernism than what would eventually be branded International Style, but he certainly revolutionized the practice of design and construction in this country with a completely new approach to design that both rejected and assimilated anything precedent. Giuseppi Terragni hated Le Corbusier, Alvar Aalto hated Mies, are they not modernists? Theo Von Doesburg and Piet Mondrian hated each others guts and you need labels to tell their shit apart. Also Frank Lloyd Wright hated anybody besides himself so that doesn't really matter.
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Exactly. Louis Sullivan was a modernist for heavens sake!
Just as Modern Art does not begin with Picasso, Modern Architecture does not begin with Mies, Corbusier, and Gropius. Modern Architecture began with Adler and Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright just as Modern Art began with Manet and Monet. Their work may look nothing like a Jasper Johns, Pollack, or Picasso, but that doesn't mean it is not in the same vein of experiment and thought.