Le Corbusier Extended

Even I am stopped in my tracks, if relatively briefly, by the present insanity of the press.

Never mind, there is nothing of value to be said about them, and there are people around the place about to cut the oxygen from them.

Let us look again at the previous post regarding the political thinking behind the architecture of Le Corbusier - namely, the proposition that (his idea of) an Industrial Age needed people to be units of production, stacked together like something to fit into shoe-boxes, and then stuck onto fast moving transport systems to rapidly get them to their places of active slavery.

Take a look at Singapore. This is the ultimate upside of Le Corbusier.

You even have today, a high-rise building there of the usual crass steel frame design, with visually open-to-the-outside glass windows as walls, and in which 'luxury cars' are stacked as if the whole thing is a dispenser of 'luxury vehicles.' And that's what it's meant to be. 

So do we consider the possibility that these ridiculous ideas have seeped their way into other areas of human endeavor - let's say, to attire, fashion, even food? Well, certainly, of course they have.

So would you be able to tell the difference between a classic old building designed for human habitation and normal society, and the meaningless drivel that is passed off as architecture for today's city buildings? Certainly you would. 

A little further north and you have Penang, which has managed to
retain and maintain authenticity about itself

And would you be able to tell the difference between the signature style of a dish invented by Auguste Escoffier, and some nonsense vended as contemporary food?

And have you ever observed that for many a good long year now, fashion and designing for fashion has completely lost touch with any insinuations of actual, real sex...  

We must explore these themes more...