Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 16:07:11 -0500 (EST)
Subject: M-TH: Architectural Design and Capitalism


I've just read the Neo-Marxist architectural historian, Manfredo Tafuri's 
book "Architecture and Utopia:Design and Capitalist Development". And the 
question is what do Marxist do about skyscrapers? Are skyscrapers 
celebration of capitalist achievement? Would celebrating beautiful 
architecture mean consuming capitalist ideology? 
Before anyone quotes Walter Benjamin on the work of art, please explain 
what he means in plain simple language. I'm extremely lost in the verbose 
multisyllabic world of academic language. 

Thank you, 
Limin


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