Brad,
This is the way the world ends,
not with a bang but a wig on.
arthur,
It all ends in parody.
-----Original Message-----
From: Brad McCormick, Ed.D. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 3, 2003 5:52 PM
To: Cordell, Arthur: ECOM
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Futurework] FW: A.Word.A.Day--Potemkin village
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> seems appropriate to some of the discussion on FW
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wordsmith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, November 3, 2003 12:03 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: A.Word.A.Day--Potemkin village
>
>
> potemkin village (po-TEM-kin VIL-ij) noun
>
> An impressive showy facade designed to mask undesirable facts.
[snip]
Indeed. This is like postmodern architecture's celeration
of the "decorated shed" (ref. Robert Venturi): a building
in which persons do banal things, but with a glitzy facade.
These master builders(?) are proud that they do not try to
use architecture to redeem man or to save the earth,
but only to make "beauty".(Arthur Drexler, Intro to
_5 Architects_, Oxford).
This is the way the world ends,
not with a bang but a wig on.
\brad mcormick
--
Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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