Sundreme
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Looks way to post modern. It has no warmth, no coziness. It doesn't even look like a home to me, more like an office building. Its so different then his old home, with those big turrets. ......///
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just a quick thought Sundreme, I was reading a downloaded chapter out of Trevanian's ( a pseudonym for author Rodney Whitaker) new book "The Crazy Ladies of Pearl Street" - set in 1840's France. I hold no knowledge or interest of either the era, in that area anyway, personally; but he is my favourite "airport novel" author, and I'll read anything he writes... AnyHOO, the reason for posting is in regard to the highlighted portion of your architectural-style comment of "looks way too
post modern.....":
In the author's notes on painstakingly researching the book on the area of France - Paris' Garrets district, eg the "slums" where the book chronicles 4 young people growing up together as friends and tracks them through life, only to (predictably) meet up as adults. Well, excellent authour that Trevanian is, and VERY thorough in his research - sometimes 15 years in the case of a Western he penned.... POINT BEING - trusting his source for this purpose, it is simply interesting to note that in his words, architecturally, everything we associate with the term "modern", followed by post-modern(e), is in fact referring to Paris, France, in the 1840's, when the style of "modern" was born. I am NO student of architecture, armchair or otherwise, so I can't substantiate this without unwarranted time in the internet, so I was curious - do you know where when the term
post-modern originated ? And was Trevanian/Whitaker correct regarding France and "Modern" architecture's birth ? Interesting.....
thx