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Anthony Paletta is a freelance writer located in New York City. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Metropolis, Architectural Record, and many other publications.
A draft executive order condemns the modernism of an aesthetic elite in favor of popular neoclassicism. The ensuing controversy has obscured not just the diversity of each style, but also the economic forces behind the business of building.
Yugoslavia produced a thrilling variety of buildings—frequently departing from the prefabricated monotony of the Eastern Bloc.
Boston’s concrete modernist architecture is unsurpassed and widely despised.
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