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  • From: "Virginia Ingram" <virginia AT virginiaingram.com>
  • To: <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: raleigh modernism
  • Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 19:25:04 -0400 (EDT)

shut up steven, everyone knows you are a knitter.

> Does anyone know of any ghost songs about modernist architecture?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ch-scene-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:ch-scene-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of John Iwaniszek
> Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 6:55 PM
> To: ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: raleigh modernism
>
> rickbang AT gmail.com (rick sawyer) wrote in
> 2edd44c80510120823x61ec87d7s30db83fb15aa4ce4 AT mail.gmail.com:">news:2edd44c80510120823x61ec87d7s30db83fb15aa4ce4 AT mail.gmail.com:
>
>>> 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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