The video for Fran Silvestre Arquitectos’ Atrium House in Valencia, Spain has great images but the wrong music…

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The music is too warm and cosy. It’s music for a barn, not a machine made for and by the future of living. My recommendation: Turn the video’s sound off and play instead this more fitting piece of music.

Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...

4 replies on “Glass to Glass”

  1. I love these intense modernists who have no belongings. No books, no records, no computers, no stacks of paper, no magazines, no art, no coats or hats, no piles of bills, no sunglasses or keys, no coffee cups or wine glasses; no nothing except pristine purity. Like prison, only bigger.

  2. A home is not a machine for living. That way of thinking leads to inhuman concrete council blocks that have to be torn down when it’s discovered that human beings can’t successfully live in them.

  4. Good God, who wants an unbroken view from all angles of a big square of blank concrete?

    Centered on a pool and garden, filled with art, books, and furniture, it would still feel very smug and self-satisfied, but at least it would seem human.

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