Taylor Trowbridge

[Taylor Trowbridge @ttrowbridgearch]

"Nothing will work itself out." -Le Corbusier (Ted Shelton - Automobile Utopias) #architecturalhistory

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"The pedestrian must be made into an efficient transportation unit too." -Norman Bel Geddes (Ted Shelton - Automobile Utopias) #architecturalhistory

[Taylor Trowbridge @ttrowbridgearch]

"This circumstance would render the city obsolete." -Frank Lloyd Wright (Ted Shelton - Automobile Utopias) #architecturalhistory

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It's pretty crazy to think that at a certain point in time, when architects were theorizing about designing roads & traffic, that cities were thought of as no more than stuff to go between & around the streets. #architecturalhistory

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It's difficult to imagine the car putting such a strain on planners & designers considering how integral the car is in all of our lives today. #architecturalhistory

[Taylor Trowbridge @ttrowbridgearch]

"The motor has killed the great city. The motor must save the great city." -Le Corbusier (Ted Shelton - Automobile Utopias) #architecturalhistory

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What is it about painting that gives it a reputation as the purest form of art? #architecturalhistory

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"[Modern ornament would] seem to mar rather than adorn the clean perfection of surface and proportion." (MoMA - Modern Architecture) #architecturalhistory

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I'm super intrigued by the Bauhaus concept that reaching self actualization essentially makes you an automatically perfected artist. #architecturalhistory

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It's surreal to see vulnerable/personal sides of such famous architects. We often get so caught up in names and ideas of people that they become more iconic than anything. Seeing the other side of them is a strange reminder that we're no different from them. #architecturalhistory

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"Space is meaningless without scale, containment, boundaries, and direction." (Ada Louise Huxtable - Sometimes We Do it Right) #architecturalhistory

[Taylor Trowbridge @ttrowbridgearch]

"...the uninformed public that never understood or accepted what was happening..." (Ada Louise Huxtable - Sometimes We Do it Right)

It's pretty crazy to think about how much work/time goes into architecture & how little attention most people pay to it.

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[Taylor Trowbridge @ttrowbridgearch]

"Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization." (Alan Crawford - Ideas and Objects: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain) #architecturalhistory

[Taylor Trowbridge @ttrowbridgearch]

Never thought I would see this overlap. #kuwtk #architecturalhistory

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@NickBethel2 [2/2] solution to too many cars in city lies in the design of cities. If people want them used less, they need to design cities to depend on them less. Also normalize/increase public transportation, have more bike/scooter shares, & make cities more pedestrian friendly.

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@NickBethel2 [1/2] I'm not sure if you're asking if I think they're conveniently blamed or if they're actually the problem. They are definitely pointed at a lot as an issue, & I can understand why, but I don't think they're the primary issue. However, to those who think they are, the simplest

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@HeimannAndrew Architecture should be made to last. It needs to represent the present in a sense but it needs to be adaptable enough to stand in the future & still be functional & aesthetically relevant.

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Highlights of the first week's videos... #architecturalhistory

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@idrmrw @Duncan36040548 Aw I love him. I hope he has all the best dreams.

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"All architects and architectures are genetically related and "cross-fertilize" promiscuously." (Mark Wigley - Whatever Happened to Total Design?) #architecturalhistory