Film Review: Beat Girl And City 2000

Posted by: Chris Steins
Thanks to: ArchNewsNow.com

9 January 2004 - 6:00am

Despite public disdain and Hollywood derision, modernism maintains its grip on architecture.

"City 2000 resembles what Le Corbusier wanted to do to Paris, but even more it resembles Brasilia, the planned new modernist capital of Brazil, built in the late 1950s and '60s. In fact, later in the film, the architect has persuaded a financier from some Latin American country to back its construction, with help from his brother, a corrupt legislator."

Full Story: David Brussat: Give modernism a beating, Part I

Source: The Providence Journal, January 8, 2004

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