Interesting Links
Frank Gehry’s Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health
Modern Architecture insists on novelty and originality über alles and consequently shuns classical proportion and traditional ornamentation like the plague. Along with those, it also shuns basing design on functionality of space and disregards rational limits of cost and systematically substitutes strangeness and bizarrerie for beauty. Traditional architecture sought to charm or to ennoble and uplift. Modern architecture seeks to startle or intimidate via grandiose extravagance and Ozymandian superbia.
Liz Holtzman does a fine job of describing how “The Older I Get, the More I Loathe Modernism.”
Humorist David Sedaris was bitten by a yappy little dog and did not find it funny at all. The essay frankly left me rooting for the dog.
Lots of other countries are crazy on a California-scale:
An Australian women’s rights advocate has been ordered to pay a combined total of $95,000 AUD to two trannies for referring to them as men which, of course, is what they really are.
A Canadian Judge has upheld “Aboriginal title” for the Cowichan (variously spelled as Coweechin, Cowitchen, Cowitchin, Cowitzen, Cow-ait-chen, Cowitchian, Cawitchin, Cawechin, Cowetchin, Cowegin, Cowaitzchin, Cawaitchen, Kawitchin, and Qauitschin) tribe to 800 acres of Richmond, a suburb of Vancouver, B.C. currently occupied by unlucky non-Cowichan Canadian homeowners and businesses.
I was sure that the image of the Center for Brain Health was an AI-generated fake, but, no, it's right on the Cleveland Clinic web site. When I was a senior in high school, I had ear surgery at the Cleveland Clinic. I would have refused to set foot inside and would instead have let a mastoid infection eat away my cerebellum if the hospital had then looked like THAT.