March 24, 2008

Osbert Lancaster.

communist architecture, drawing by Osbert Lancaster
fascist architecture, drawing by Osbert Lancaster

The difference of proletarian and fascist architecture as seen by Osbert Lancaster (1908 - 1986) - an English cartoonist, stage designer and writer. On the same page Osbert Lancaster quotes from Geoffrey Scott's book, The Architecture of Humanism: "The history of civilization thus leaves in architecture its truest, because its most unconscious record."