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Against Architects
Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, and Mies van der Rohe were undoubtedly the greatest architects of the 20th Century. Their writings and architectural works comprise a large part of the education of most architects. Advertisements Against Architects is a series of posters comprised of advertisements for nonsensical organizations based on well-known quotes by these three great architects. It is designed to cause viewers to ask themselves how it can be that the teachings of architects who were at their prime nearly a century ago remain relevant today.
Advertisements Against Architects was inspired by the advertising of the late 1970s to the early 1980s, which was the end of a time period that many view as a “golden age” in commercial advertising. Much like the teachings of Wright, Corbusier and Mies, some consider the bold and at times off-color style of advertisements from this time period timeless while others consider them obsolete.
