Modernist Brutalism was architecture's own Hungerplan East, West, North and South.
A plan to eliminate worldwide all those oddball little gargoyles and spandrels that cluttered up the seamless streamlined moderne eugenic vision of simple, certain, eternal perfection.
There was to be no place for the oddball and the handicapped on this Voyage into the Future : on either humanity itself or on its material culture...
MANHATTAN CRUDE : in an age (and a war) consumed with Purity, the dying Dr Dawson's gift of crowd-sourced 'impure' natural penicillin was not just a global lifesaver. It was also a window into a new way of looking at the world.
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