{"id":414,"date":"2003-05-07T08:49:42","date_gmt":"2003-05-07T12:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=414"},"modified":"2007-02-24T13:40:03","modified_gmt":"2007-02-24T17:40:03","slug":"blowing-the-house-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/?p=414","title":{"rendered":"Blowing the House Down"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everyone stop reading and go over to the Blowhards<\/a> to read their interview with architecture theorist — and I mean that in a good<\/em> way — and Christopher Alexander disciple Nikos Salingaros. I can’t go down the line with Alexander, whose views are a bit totalitarian for my taste<\/a>, though far less so than those of the people, like Corbusier, he’s trying to supplant, but Salingaros will refine your thoughts about architecture if nothing else. It’s a five-parter, best read in order. One<\/a>, two<\/a>, three<\/a>, and four<\/a> are up so far. Five<\/a> will presumably follow shortly. Don’t miss the comments to Part Two, in which AC Douglas<\/a> gets tossed for being, well, for being AC Douglas, mostly.<\/p>\n

In unrelated news, just two short days after being accused of “stifling dissent,” I am now called a racist<\/a> (“dim-witted” too, but that’s old news) for this<\/a>. I’m still waiting on “fascist” and “Nazi,” but at this rate I expect to fill my bingo card by the end of the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everyone stop reading and go over to the Blowhards to read their interview with architecture theorist — and I mean that in a good way — and Christopher Alexander disciple Nikos Salingaros. I can’t go down the line with Alexander, whose views are a bit totalitarian for my taste, though far less so than those […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-21-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}