🔥 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Architecture,Art and design,Culture,China,Mao Zedong,Xi Jinping,Exhibitions 💡 Main takeaway: IIn 1954, an issue of Manhua, a state-sponsored satirical magazine in China, declared: “Some architects blindly worship the formal methods of Western bourgeois design. As a result, grotesque and reactionary buildings have emerged.”Under the headline “Ugly Architecture,” humorous caricatures of bizarre buildings fill the page. There is a modern drum with a bolted neoclassical portico to the front. Another bulbous building is surrounded by an arch of ice cream cone columns. One experimental bus stop has a bench under…
