Today, 92 years ago, a group of prominent architects and planners embarked the SS Patris II to discuss the future of urban planning. It would lead to an urban planning doctrine that still influences our urban planning pratice. László Moholy-Nagy filmed aboard. #CIAM #Corbusier #AthensCharter

"As Experts with Ideals...[Modern architects] build for Man rather than for people – this means, to suit themselves, that is, to suit their own particular middle-class values, which they assign to everyone..."

‘A building is architecture only when it expresses, as it were, the desire to be inhabited and experienced by perceiving, moving and relating subjects.’

– reading about Aldo van Eyck

Great reading on #HighRise; Ballard's book, Wheatley's movie, today's high rise and society. By Francesco Sebregondi. averyreview.com/issues/17/a-...