the About Buildings and Cities chaps have covered this book too, with a more architect-y perspective. I am more in tune with the Colin Marshall critique personally, but it is always interesting to get some different views https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOHz8G6gPF8
I've long been an on-and-off listener to that podcast (which could hardly be more in my wheelhouse), and I actually listened to that episode just before writing this piece, wary though I was about being too influenced by their take. In the event, it was one of the main examples I had in mind when referring to "accusations of being an elaborate but deceptively unsystematic defense of Brand's personal aesthetic preferences."
the About Buildings and Cities chaps have covered this book too, with a more architect-y perspective. I am more in tune with the Colin Marshall critique personally, but it is always interesting to get some different views https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOHz8G6gPF8
I've long been an on-and-off listener to that podcast (which could hardly be more in my wheelhouse), and I actually listened to that episode just before writing this piece, wary though I was about being too influenced by their take. In the event, it was one of the main examples I had in mind when referring to "accusations of being an elaborate but deceptively unsystematic defense of Brand's personal aesthetic preferences."