"Most writing about American architecture describes buildings. What interests me is what they reveal about money, politics, climate, and the particular American habit of building for the present and demolishing the past."
Jackson Laurie
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Jackson Laurie
A writer based in Miami, Florida. Not an architect. Does not work for a firm. Walks cities and notices things: the way a building meets the street, the logic of a facade, the difference between a structure designed to last and one designed to be sold.
His focus is the American built environment, with Florida as the sharpest lens: the Sarasota School, mid-century modernism, the Brutalist civic buildings of the 1960s and 1970s, and the forces that have worked steadily to erase all of it.
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Florida
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Mid-century modernism, the Sarasota School, Paul Rudolph, Ralph Twitchell, Victor Lundy, and what Florida's climate demanded of the architects who took it seriously.
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