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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 Parallel Between Classical Architecture and the Rest of the World

Classical architecture has the narrative which is approachable and understandable. And it gives ordinary people, non-architect or non-classical, it gives them access to the depth. So if you write something really obscure that nobody reads, they'll never get the depth of what you're doing. If I'm a Freemason, for example, I have certain secret traditions which link me to that community and specifically exclude the rest of the community. It's a very similar phenomenon.

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