Reciting Modernist Architects

unhappyhipsters: She hated it when Daddy made her recite modernist architects — alphabetically, starting with Aalto and ending with Yamasaki — for his friends. (Photo: Ye Rin Mok; Dwell)

OK, this is funny. Especially since our (late) fish were Eero and Isamu.

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Alexandra Lange is an architecture and design critic, and author of Writing about Architecture: Mastering the Language of Buildings and Cities. (Princeton Architectural Press, 2012). Her work has appeared in The Architect’s Newspaper, Architectural Record, Dwell, Metropolis, Print, New York Magazine and The New York Times.

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