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Friday Photography Blog #19 [UPDATED] | 128 comments (128 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Friday Photography Blog #19 (4.00 / 8)

Postcards of the 1937 Paris Expo:

The exposition was dominated by the monster pavilions, facing off against each other, of Nazi Germany (left) and the Soviet Union (right).

Picture taken from the Palais de Chaillot (Trocadéro).

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri Jan 25th, 2008 at 10:28:24 AM EST
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The German pavilion (4.00 / 9)

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri Jan 25th, 2008 at 10:30:27 AM EST
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The Soviet pavilion (4.00 / 9)

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri Jan 25th, 2008 at 10:32:36 AM EST
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Re: The Soviet pavilion (none / 0)

They both look like that Mussolini architecture.

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!

by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Fri Jan 25th, 2008 at 10:44:37 AM EST
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Re: The Soviet pavilion (none / 1)

Well... Speer after this "glorious design", did help to conceive the "final solution"...! He is still felt as a stain in Architecture, even though the "mad scientist syndrome" could apply to a great number of egocentric architects !

It's, alas, not a new thing...
"Houses are built to live in and not to look on."
Essays, 45-Francis Bacon, 1561-1626

"What can I do, What can I write, Against the fall of Night". A.E. Housman

by margouillat (hemidactylus(dot)frenatus(at)wanadoo(dot)fr) on Fri Jan 25th, 2008 at 10:53:45 AM EST
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