A Handful of Dust

Science fiction writer J.G. Ballard writes an intriguing column on the architecture of the modern age of the late 1920s and early 1930s, and why it seems fitting that you can still find remnants of the stripped-down style of utopia in cemeteries. Via David Pescovitz in Boing Boing

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