Antidote to Modernism: Feifei Feng's Bespoke Intervention on Slab Housing in Jinan

Vladimir Gintoff — Sat, 23 Jan 2016 09:30:00 +0000

Modernism was a stylistic evolution meant to jettison the baggage that had moored culture to habits and historicism. But it was more than an architectural style: it was a new and universal way of life meant to eradicate variability, to relish in the ease of sameness and reproducibility. It’s easy to be seduced by Modernism when you’re talking about motel rooms, or Starbucks, or your shirt size at a favorite store, all instances where replication is reassuring. But the movement’s biggest advocates, governments and developers, pushed the style to its extreme in large housing blocks - a typology long out of fashion in the United States, but which continues to be de rigueur in countries intent on achieving rapid economic expansion and concentrating its populations in urban regions.

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Antidote to Modernism: Feifei Feng's Bespoke Intervention on Slab Housing in Jinan