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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 Beauty of Classical Architecture

Being a classical architect doesn't make buildings beautiful, it gives you better tools to make them beautiful. Classical architecture can be bad, but it's not awful because it operates within a series of natural constraints. I sometimes describe it as like an enormous battery, you know, enormous battery with energy. And that battery goes back 2000 years. You can communicate in a sort of way with architects long dead. There is no limit to it.

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