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    This chapter discusses how modern architecture aimed to reflect modern society and values through its forms but often presented an idealized version that did not truly represent reality. It explores how modernist architecture used simplified geometric forms and smooth surfaces to symbolize ideas of rationality and progress but in doing so ignored the complexities and messiness of actual urban life. The chapter questions if the mirrored surfaces and sleek exteriors of modern buildings actually served to obscure more than reveal by presenting an unattainably perfect vision of modernity.

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    This chapter discusses how modern architecture aimed to reflect modern society and values through its forms but often presented an idealized version that did not truly represent reality. It explores how modernist architecture used simplified geometric forms and smooth surfaces to symbolize ideas of rationality and progress but in doing so ignored the complexities and messiness of actual urban life. The chapter questions if the mirrored surfaces and sleek exteriors of modern buildings actually served to obscure more than reveal by presenting an unattainably perfect vision of modernity.

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    Hilde HEYNEN

    Architecture and Modernity.


    A Critique
    MIT Press, 1999

    Extras din Cap.3 - Reections in a Mirror

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