The International Style as Cheesecake

Voyou goes all 1950s, and has some very interesting things to say about the decade in which Modernism and Social Democracy largely became hegemonic - and what happened to them in the process. This argues that today we live in neoliberalism's equivalent to the 1950s - consensus, conformity, the battle won. An interesting contention, and one which the re-emergence in Dubai and elsewhere of an amoral technocratic futurism might support. The Gehry curve as the Cadillac fin? More on this later, perhaps...