left write & centaur was launched in 2017 on WordPress. I’m migrating its content here while adding new material, largely short comments on poetics, politics, art, history, neighborhood, and family. You can find the original site here. Thanks to Tina Turbeville for designing the banner.
Distressed Stucco
Wandering through the apartments of Unite d’Habitation in Marseilles, critic Robert Hughes recalled how deeply architect Le Corbusier believed that its clean-lined modernism would “improve” its inhabitants…