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#19 - Prof. Robert Adam, Robert Adam Architecture: Time and Architecture, Myths & Misconceptions about Modernity, the Value of Beauty & Classical Architecture

The Aesthetic City

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The Myth of Classical Architecture

In the Renaissance, it wasn't exactly done for benign Democrats. It was done for some of the nastiest rulers who have ever known. So therefore, associated with fascism. Well, Sir did George Washington, you know, and so did Sweden as the pioneering welfare state. In fact, the United States coinage has got full of classical buildings.

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