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Unité d'habitation

Author: Le Corbusier
Year: 1947 Edit Add
Book: Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

That is obviously not possible, whence the downplaying of the entrance to its bare minimum. But this disjunction from the surrounding city is different from that of the monuments of the International Style, in which the act of disjunction was violent, visible, and had a very real symbolic significance -- as in Le Corbusier's great pilotis, whose gesture radically separates the new Utopian space of the modern from the degraded and fallen city fabric which it thereby explicitly repudiates (although the gamble of the modern was that this new Utopian space, in the virulence of its novum, would fan out and eventually transform its surroundings by the very power of its new spatial language).

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Westin Bonaventure Hotel

Author: John Portman
Year: 1976 Edit Add
Book: Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

The Bonaventure, however, is content to "let the fallen city fabric continue to be in its being" (to parody Heidegger); no further effects, no larger protopolitical Utopian transformation, is either expected or desired.

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