FT.com / Arts / Design & Architecture - This is the modern world
Edwin Heathcote @ the FT discusses the architectural cues that modern British urban planning takes from its past (as well as the famous arcades of Paris) all in discussion of Images of Change: An Archaeology of England’s Contemporary Landscape by Sefryn Penrose (and introduction by one of my favorite sculptors Antony Gormley).
It is no great leap to see our shopping malls as the successors to Paris’s arcades. Covered, privatised spaces of artifice and consumption, the mall is perhaps the symbol of our civilisation. Everything we now build, from airports to motorway service stations, museums to cities of culture draws inspiration from those visions of limitless consumption.
Definitely wanting to pick up a copy of this book.
