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“The shapes of houses, sometimes transmitted through a hundred generations, seem eternally valid.”

Book:Architecture without Architects

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Architecture without Architects

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Bernard Rudofsky

Bernard Rudofsky, born on April 13, 1905, was a prominent American writer known for his work on urban planning and design. His writings critically examined the issues of modern urban life, and he is renowned for his unique perspective and incisive writing. Rudofsky's work has had a profound impact on the fields of urban planning, architecture, and design. more

“Modern nationalism swept Europe alongside the flourishing of industrialisation. Across the continent, poets and intellectuals cultivated and often heavily modified vernacular languages to be bearers of 19th century modernity. These guardians of language faced significant challenges in adapting the spoken tongues of the peasantry to the demands of high literature and natural science. The story for the arts is widely known: modern Hungarian, Czech, Italian, Hebrew, Polish and other literatures blossomed in the second half of the century. However, the high valuation for efficiency in the sciences somewhat tamed this incipient Babel ["Absolute English," Aeon, February 4, 2015].”

Language Vernacular Babel

Author:Michael D. Gordin

“What happened in Scotland in the 1960s and the 1970s and what laid the foundation for the enormous creative achievements of the 1980s was the liberation of the voice. The Scottish voice declared its independence. The liberation of the voice was at first the acceptance of and an assertion of the vernacular. But the real liberation of the voice came not from the assertion of the rights of the vernacular itself, but from the assertion of the right to move without boundaries between the vernacular and standard English, between the demotic and the literary.”

Scotland Literary Vernacular 1970s 1980s Scottish Culture Standard English Demotic Scottish Voice

Book:Out of History: Narrative Paradigms in Scottish and British Culture

Source: Out of History: Narrative Paradigms in Scottish and British Culture

“Only as a woman did I begin to think about these black people in relation to language, to think about their trauma as they were compelled to witness their language rendered meaningless with a colonizing European culture, where voices deemed foreign could not be spoken, were outlawed tongues, renegade speech.”

Language Speech Oppression Colonialism Vernacular

Author:Bell Hooks

“I want to say, Don't bother asking me anything. I want to say, There is nothing underneath.”

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