
#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 Future of Architecture
I was a great fan of Mervyn, Peek and Gorman Gast. I don't want to live there. To enjoy speculation is not the same as wanting to live in what you speculate. Do apes, particularly chimpanzees and bonobos, do they have culture? It's an interesting subject. And archaeology is the same before DNA and before other scientific forms. The way you identified a culture was by the traditions that it left behind. So these are very interesting sidelines, which actually illuminated these things. They were fascinating revelations for me. There's two, lots of things about tradition. Obviously science fiction is clearly about time. But the tradition is about time. We all do all
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