Conversation 3 — Dulwich Picture Gallery — Soane in The Colour Palace
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The Importance of Modern Architecture
At one level he's this very very erudite historian of architecture. Whose heart in some way never leaves the sights in Rome which he'd visited on the grand tour. But he's at the same time an intensely modern architect who is engaging with a whole series of problems, programs which are of like the modern state and its institutions at the time. And that he is breaking down in an incredibly convincing way. The contradiction between an architecture rooted in classical antiquity and a series of requirements which are being given form by the developing like capitalist and imperialist state. You know these things like the like the Bank of England like the law courts which we'll get on to are in this intensely interesting like
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