GEOG 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Modern Architecture, Le Corbusier, Utopia
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Global cultural landscape: there has been an intellectual attempt to create global culture around the enlightenment ideals, specifically: These would be achieved through building suburban landscapes around these ideals. To do so, you would need to enforce these ideals on the populations within the built environment. These landscapes were not produced until these ideals were formed, e. g. the generic, futuristic city in metropolis (1927) Some features of the imagined global cultural landscapes from the past: Simplified and standardized forms (brought from ideas of modern architecture) These form the generic forms prevalent in our modern landscape today, e. g. downtown toronto (which is ultimately repeated over and over again in multiple cities) Uses sculptured geometric forms (totally abstract built environments > assembled by primitive geometry) and also that the location is completely anonymous (you aren"t able to recognize where it is) There are no clues, no regional styles or building materials, and no historical/cultural icons to indicate the origin.
