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The Importance of Traditionalism in Architecture
John Benjamin is for traditional architecture and against the desolation of new modernism. He was an angry, hectoring young man in the 40s before becoming a moral tutor at Cambridge who introduced him to John Benjamin. Do you think he's had a lastingly good effect on architecture or not? There's no question that the world has won an architecture. I wish he had more effect on architecture. We just got what you managed to see: horrible stuff and not beautiful modern architecture. And do you think Poundbury is a good example of how to do? You build it and then you hope it will be... Has that worked in practice? Well, Poundbury is his guinea pig
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