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Socrates said that the order of the city was the order of the soul writ large. That observation is all the more true today—and not a compliment to the modern soul or the modern city. Most people simply don’t advert to the quiet influence the surrounding architecture has on their psyche: the shape and scale of buildings, the order and proportion (or lack thereof). The father of modern Bauhaus architecture is the German Walter Gropius, a promiscuous cad who married a promiscuous shrew named Anna Mahler, wife of composer Gustav Mahler. Dr. E. Michael Jones, editor of Culture Wars magazine says that Gropius painted into his architectural vision a radically new kind of building and with it, a revolution in urban planning.
In this episode you will learn
- The subtle (?) ways in which the architecture that surrounds us tells us who we are and what our life’s priorities ought to be
- How Gropius’s rationalization of his own degeneracy got transmuted into buildings built purely for function, and ugly as sin besides
- Why rebellion against Logos leads to disorder and chaos in the external design of things
- What public housing Projects in Chicago, suburban Moscow, and industrial Poland have in common
- Why classical architecture as nurtured by Catholic principles and sound philosophy can lead the way to beautify both home and church design
Resources mentioned in this episode
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Living Machines: Architecture and the Rationalization of Sexual Misbehavior by E. Michael Jones
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Moderns: Modernity as Rationalized Sexual Misbehavior by E. Michael Jones
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Dionysos Rising: The Birth of Cultural Revolution Out of the Spirit of Music by E. Michael Jones
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The Slaughter of Cities: Urban Renewal As Ethnic Cleansing by E. Michael Jones
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Home Alone: A Neighbor’s Thoughts on Pete Buttigieg by E. Michael Jones
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From Bauhaus to Our House by Tom Wolfe