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9 Oct 2024 Conversations with Tyler Tom Tugendhat on Modernizing the UK and Political Reform
“If there’s a good design, if there’s a good form of architecture that works, that people like, I don’t see what’s wrong with repeating it just because you’ve changed the plumbing or the wiring or behind the facade.”
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- 9 Oct 2024
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…What’s your most controversial opinion about London architecture? Oh, the recent architecture actually can be absolutely fantastic. There’s some really beautiful recent architecture. There’s some beautiful town squares, as you know, the urban squares built recently. The condemnation of modern architecture, I think, is wrong. I’m a fan of what some architects call pastiche. You don’t have to reinvent the wheel every single time. If there’s a good design, if there’s a good form of architecture that works, that people like, I don’t see what’s wrong with repeating it just because you’ve changed the plumbing or the wiring or behind the facade. Even though we’re much wealthier and better educated, it seems that we — and I don’t just mean the UK here — we can’t build anything like, say, Bath or York. Why is that? Where have we gone wrong?…
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