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This is a great piece. The picture at the top of the page is recognizable to anyone who has lived in Boston; it is the courthouse at government center, seen from beneath. Older Bostonians still lament the loss of Scollay Square, which was bulldozed to make way for this brutalist monument.

Another thing worth noting as a companion to these thoughts: one of the great French critics of architectural modernism is Jacques Tati, whose "Playtime" takes up many of the exact same observations of this essay, albeit in clever visual form. The fenced-in cubic house pictured in the middle of Part 1 is a dead ringer for the abode at the center of "Mon Oncle."

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