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5 New Architecture & Design Exhibitions for September 2021

According to the 6th century CE antiquarian John the Lydian, "the oracle recommends drinking milk for the sake of good health all through the month of September".1 And while milk may have advantages in terms of your physical health, for your spiritual and intellectual health, we'd recommend the following quintet of new architecture, design and art exhibitions opening in September 2021. Whereby, exhibitions and milk aren't mutually exclusive, you can partake of both if you so wish......

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Louis Sullivan Wainwright Building St. Louis
Architecture | 01.03.2014

(smow) blog Design Calendar: March 1st 1896 – Louis H. Sullivan defines "Form Follows Function"

There are, we would argue, three phrases that have come to popularly define modernist architecture and design: "Ornament is crime", "Less is more" and "Form follows function". The first is derived from the 1908 text "Ornament and Crime" [Ornament und verbrechen] by the Austrian architect Alfred Loos. The second is most commonly associated with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, although its origins are much, much, older. The latter can be found in American architect Louis H. Sullivan's essay "The

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