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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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Why I Became a Classical Architect

I think the interesting thing that's happening now is that where you live and where you work are becoming much closer. And this is going to have a big influence on these hostile places, because you will choose to go there less because it's not a pleasant experience. Up until the industrial revolution, people lived and worked in the same place. I'm well rehearsed at delivering the answer so I can be fairly, fairly explicit. When I went to architecture school, most of my contemporaries had come straight from the secondary school,. say it from school. What basically what the architecture course did was it brainwashed you. You were told that you were joining a superior group of people, a distinct culture

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