RTP-area local music and culture

["Virginia Ingram" <virginia AT virginiaingram.com>]

shut up steven, everyone knows you are a knitter.

> Does anyone know of any ghost songs about modernist architecture?
>
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> [mailto:ch-scene-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of John Iwaniszek
> Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 6:55 PM
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> Subject: Re: raleigh modernism
>
> rickbang AT gmail.com (rick sawyer) wrote in
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>>> really slick css. so much of modernist construction
>>> seemed tied up in whatever was the latest material of
>>> the time, often appropriated from some other industry
>>> (the toy industry, apparently).
>>
>> *snerk.*
>>
>> i think the world is
>>> still waiting for a truly modern architecture. that
>>> is, one which serves *and pleases* the masses rather
>>> than rich people and foolhardy yuppies.
>>
>> there is an International Style house on Dacian (or Markham?) Avenue
>> in Trinity Park, Durham that is a treat to see nestled among its late
>> 19th century (and Revival) neighbors.  it seems to be holding up
>> pretty well (though i've never been inside).
>>
>> rick.
>
>
> Isn't there a pre-fab 50's stainless steel house in Durham as well?
>
>
> (Pre-fab: before Warhol.  Post-fab: circa somewhere during the first
> Reagan
> administration.)
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