Dried apricots for Algernon (John Waters)

“it's like i crave confusion from every aspect of life.”



Piece from the Mizcene from the Art Museum inside the Railroad Museum outside the Architectural Design Exhibition. Edit is a practice in brevity-editing.

Huxley's review of J. H. Whitehouse's Ruskin Addresses, which appeared in the September 5, 1919 Athenæum, does not so much evaluate these Ruskin texts of the editor's treatment of them as give Huxley an occasion to provide his own estimate of Ruskin, whose political economics and defence of the Pre-Raphaelites he praises but whose effect on British architecture he despises. Huxley ___________ a child of ____ time in this _______, and time and taste have passed him by, _____________ believed in the 1920s, scholars, critics, and laymen now increasingly s__ ______ ______ forms of Gothic Revival architecture as major ________ Ruskin as one of the ____ art thinkers of the age. Now __________________________________________________________________________ Ruskin's emphases on lush design have come to seem increasingly essential to a humane form of building.
Huxley apparently doesn't know much about either Ruskin's work on architecture or his actual complex, often contradictory influence upon art and design, ____________ — Seven Lamps of Architecture, The Stones of Venice, and "Traffic" — had three major effects — popularize gothic revival style, encourage functionalism in architecture, and encourage revival or development of local vernacular architecture from Hungary to New Mexico. Huxley only mentions the first and simplifies the nature of a complex movement. Furthernmore, ___________________ Ruskin's relation to the Gothic Revival:
Since around 2003 homes have become less interesting every day. Builders seem to have just lost their touch on reality. Everyone wants an original home! Yet, everywhere we go and every new neighborhood we look at, the houses tend to look the same. Isn’t that odd! The originality of architects has gone out of the window. Maybe it’s because America itself is increasingly becoming boring. Not a lot of people dare to think out of the box anymore at all. Or maybe it’s the costs of these new houses. What happened was realty hit a boom and the prices of houses increased and increased until it became no longer feasible for people to buy them. Now most of Americans can’t even afford to build their own original house. Maybe that will change soon or it may not. Overall, this may end in a few years as soon as marketing prices go down but the bland architecture may continue for a long time to come.

Instead of laughing at the botched architecture, he reacts with sadness at the result of these attempts at artistic beauty that lack skill, taste, and quality materials.